Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unaligned accesses in the ethernet bridge

From: Adrian Bunk <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 16:26:58 +0200

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:57:11PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 22:37:08 +0200
> Adrian Bunk <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 01:06:02PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote:
> > > 
> > > I see lots of
> > > 	kernel unaligned access to 0xa0000001009dbb6f, ip=0xa000000100811591
> > > 	kernel unaligned access to 0xa0000001009dbb6b, ip=0xa0000001008115c1
> > > 	kernel unaligned access to 0xa0000001009dbb6d, ip=0xa0000001008115f1
> > > messages in my logs on IA64 when using the ethernet bridge with 2.6.16.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Appended is a patch to fix them.
> > 
> > 
> > I see this patch already made it into 2.6.17-rc1.
> > 
> > It seems to be a candidate for 2.6.16.3, too?
> > If yes, please submit it to [email-masked].
> 
> The code that caused this was new in 2.6.17

Ah sorry, Peter's "when using the ethernet bridge with 2.6.16" confused 
me.

cu
Adrian

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