netdev - Re: wireless vs. alignment requirements

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Date:	Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:49:36 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	dsd@...too.org, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wireless vs. alignment requirements


On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 21:32 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 09:33:36AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >
> > We still require four-byte alignment, no?
> 
> Not at all.  If NET_IP_ALIGN is zero then it won't be four-byte
> aligned (since the Ethernet header is 14 bytes long).

Right. I just didn't think that would be a valid value for an
architecture to set.

johannes

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