netdev - Re: [net PATCH] flow_dissector: Fix unaligned access in __skb_flow_dissector when used by eth_get

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Date:	Sun, 31 Jan 2016 11:17:36 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alexander.duyck@...il.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com,
	aduyck@...antis.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, tom@...bertland.com
Subject: Re: [net PATCH] flow_dissector: Fix unaligned access in
 __skb_flow_dissector when used by eth_get_headlen

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 01:12:03 -0800

> If nothing else we can discuss this further in Seville as I am just
> not convinced changing the drivers is the right way to go about fixing
> this, and I won't have the time to really get around to doing any of
> it until I have come back from the conference.

Ok, let me think about this some more.

It's a shame that "put two garbage bytes into the FIFO at the
beginning of every frame" isn't a standard hw feature.  Or maybe
I misunderstand what's going on in all of these drivers...