I'd like to hear Riku's opinion on this. But I'm inclined not to move away from the upstream default, although I must admit that Sjoerd has good arguments for changing it.
Maybe you could ask upstream whether it's time to change the default to a warning? * Sjoerd Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-08 14:02]: > Package: linux-2.6 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > By default the ARM kernel just ignores unaligned accesses from > userspace and can just accesses another address then actually > specified. This can cause strange behaviour by userspace programs. > While i agree that these programs are somewhat buggy, but doing > something undefined and not telling anyone doesn't seem like a good > strategy :) > > Some discussion on #debian-arm indicates that it the current default > made some sense in the old days. Where some programs actually relied > on the behaviour and the amount of buggy programs was so big that it > actually caused a flood of warnings. > > Times have changed though, no applications in debian should depend on > this behaviour and turning on warn+fixup doesn't seem cause a flood > anymore. Most problemeatic should have been fixed by now, as on Sparc > you'll get a sigbus on unaligned access and iirc Alpha gives a warning > about it. > > For reference, i discovered this issue because powerdns on my arm was > giving out weird SOA records. So enabling fixup does solves real > problems or at least shows where they are :) (Yes i've already patched > pdns and will be sending the patch out after some more testing) > > Sjoerd > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable') > Architecture: arm (armv5tel) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-iop32x > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL (charmap=ISO-8859-1) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
