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On Friday 25 January 2008 19:34:46 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> My attitude is: CPU's that do unaligned accesses right are the *good* 
> CPU's. We should encourage them, and put the onus of being crap on the 
> ones that are crap, rather than penalizing the ones that aren't.

I absolutely agree. But as this can get fixed with _no_ performance loss
at all inside of the firmware (and who if not intel can change stuff
in their firmware?), I think this warning is in fact valid.

> In other words, we should use "get_unaligned()".

So we should put get_unaligned() into the whole networking stack below
wireless and penalize everybody, even gigabit-ethernet?

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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