netdev - Re: commit-3ac72b7b63d5 breaks networking on iMX28

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Date:   Fri, 21 Oct 2016 08:55:36 -0200
From:   Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
To:     Henri Roosen <henri.roosen@...zinger.com>
Cc:     Eric Nelson <eric@...int.com>, Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@....com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: commit-3ac72b7b63d5 breaks networking on iMX28

Hi Henri,

2016-10-21 7:19 GMT-02:00 Henri Roosen <henri.roosen@...zinger.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Unfortunately commit-3ac72b7b63d5 "net: fec: align IP header in
> hardware" breaks networking on an iMX28 system.
>
> The commit seems valid for iMX6, where it is tested okay and solves the
> unaligned accesses.
>
> On iMX28 I still see unaligned accesses and networking is broken. Can
> anyone confirm this?

Does this fix the problem?

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
index 4ce8179..d1cefe1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
@@ -1430,14 +1430,15 @@ fec_enet_rx_queue(struct net_device *ndev, int
budget, u16 queue_id)
                skb_put(skb, pkt_len - 4);
                data = skb->data;

+               if (!is_copybreak && need_swap)
+                       swap_buffer(data, pkt_len);
+
+
 #if !defined(CONFIG_M5272)
                if (fep->quirks & FEC_QUIRK_HAS_RACC)
                        data = skb_pull_inline(skb, 2);
 #endif

-               if (!is_copybreak && need_swap)
-                       swap_buffer(data, pkt_len);
-
                /* Extract the enhanced buffer descriptor */
                ebdp = NULL;
                if (fep->bufdesc_ex)