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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4] net: add Faraday FTMAC100 10/100 Ethernet driver
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From: Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert.chuang@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:07:48 +0800

> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:51 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>> Just emit garbage bytes into the sub-word alignment padding if the chip
>> wants to word align it's DMA writes.
>
> Not sure what do you mean. The problem is that HW does not accept a
> base address of RX buffer which is not 8 bytes aligned.

I am saying this is what hardware should do if it has such a
restriction.


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