netdev - Re: errors in alignment changes..

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Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:42:15 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com
Cc:	mitsuhiro.kimura.kc@...esas.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: errors in alignment changes..

From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 01:08:07 +0300

>    I guess we can just do:
> 
> 		rxdesc->addr = dma_map_single(...);

Best not to leave a potentially invalid DMA address in a
receive descriptor the chip can potentially fetch and
look at.

That's why I said to put it into a local variable and
check for errors first.
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