Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:22:31 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 |
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:11:28PM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:10:11PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Traditionally, if the NIC driver is accessing unaligned data, it should > > be using get/put_unaligned(). > > The driver isn't, the networking stack is (it has to). For more examples > where this behaviour is required: PPPoE, VLAN...
Oh, no argument.... agreed 100%
Jeff
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