netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/4] ethoc: align received packet to make IP header at word boundary

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Date:	Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:42:22 +0800
From:	Thomas Chou <thomas@...ron.com.tw>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] ethoc: align received packet to make IP header at
  word boundary

On 10/08/2009 04:52 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger<shemminger@...tta.com>
> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:13:37 -0700
>
>> On Mon,  5 Oct 2009 17:33:19 +0800
>> Thomas Chou<thomas@...ron.com.tw>  wrote:
>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethoc.c b/drivers/net/ethoc.c
>>> index f92747f..0c6c7f4 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethoc.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethoc.c
>>> @@ -399,6 +399,10 @@ static int ethoc_rx(struct net_device *dev, int limit)
>>>   		if (ethoc_update_rx_stats(priv,&bd) == 0) {
>>>   			int size = bd.stat>>  16;
>>>   			struct sk_buff *skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, size);
>>> +
>>> +			size -= 4; /* strip the CRC */
>>> +			skb_reserve(skb, 2); /* align TCP/IP header */
>>
>> Please use NET_IP_ALIGN rather than hard coding 2 so that the value
>> can be changed on a per-cpu architecture basis if desired.
>
> Indeed.
>
> Thomas please send a patch to fix this up, thanks.
>
>
Submitted. Thanks.

- Thomas
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