Re: [linuxsh-dev] bad alignment fixup

[Philipp R. <pr...@pa...>]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 03:15:20PM +0100, Jesper Skov wrote:
> The below patch is based on an old patch from Philipp Rumpf. It allows
> the kernel to make unaligned access if it should happen to think that
> it a good thing to do.

I think the only valid reason for unaligned accesses is using weird
network protocols.  Unless there really are people out there relying
on it I'd advise against integrating it in the standard kernel
(there might be security issues with put/get_user).