netdev - Re: [RFC][NET] Alignment in mv643xx

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Message-ID: <20070226214846.GA18375@xyzzy.farnsworth.org>
Date:	Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:48:46 -0700
From:	"Dale Farnsworth" <dale@...nsworth.org>
To:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	Dale Farnsworth <dale@...nsworth.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][NET] Alignment in mv643xx_eth

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:52:06PM +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> The driver contains this little piece of candy:
> 
> #if defined(CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT) || defined(CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE)
> #define ETH_DMA_ALIGN           L1_CACHE_BYTES
> #else
> #define ETH_DMA_ALIGN           8
> #endif
> 
> Any reason why we're not using dma_get_cache_alignment() instead?

Not that I can think of.

ACK.

Dale Farnsworth
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