netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14688] New: alignment of rx

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Date:	Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:45:25 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	meyer@....tu-darmstadt.de, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, romieu@...zoreil.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14688] New: alignment of rx_skb in r8169
 driver

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:55:07 -0800

>>             (align - 1) & (unsigned long)skb->data
>> 
>> which is wrong. I would suggest the following correction:
>> 
>> pad = align ? align - ((align - 1) & (unsigned long)skb->data) : NET_IP_ALIGN;
>> if (pad == align) pad = 0; // optional
>> skb_reserve(skb, pad);
>> 
>> A patch for r8169.c is provided as attachment.
>> 
> 
> Thanks, but..
> 
> - please always submit patches via email, not via bugzilla. 
>   Documentation/SubmittingPatches goes into some detail.
> 
> - prepare patches as a unified diff, in `patch -p1' form.  It should
>   look like:
 ...
> - Please cc at least the following on the patch:
> 
> 	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
> 	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> 	netdev@...r.kernel.org
> 
> - Don't forget the changelog and a Singed-off-by:!
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Also a better, more canonical, expression to use to fix this would
be:

	align - ((align - 1) & (unsigned long)skb->data)

or similar.
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