From: M Taylor <mctylr@privacy.nb.ca>
To: Sriram Chadalavada <swenggsri@yahoo.com>
Cc: Linux-Hams@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MKISS DRIVER PATCH - for layer 3 longword alignment in m68000
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:56:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050425165643.A10741@pull.privacy.nb.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050424204044.77497.qmail@web21602.mail.yahoo.com>; from swenggsri@yahoo.com on Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:40:43PM -0700
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:40:43PM -0700, Sriram Chadalavada wrote:
>
> In consultation with David McCollough
> (Snapgear/cyberguard.com), I have come up with a
> patch(see attachment) to solve the above problem in
> architectures such as m68000 where alignment issues
> are not handled in hardware.
>
> The solution lies in increasing skbuf size by 1 and
> aligning the layer 3 header by using
> skb_reserve(skb,1). This approach has been used in
> several ethernet drivers to make them work on these
> architectures.
I'm sorry, but it looks like the attachment wasn't included or
was stripped off, could you please send it again or feel free
to mail it to me, and I will make it available on my webserver.
-ve3tix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-25 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-24 20:40 MKISS DRIVER PATCH - for layer 3 longword alignment in m68000 Sriram Chadalavada
2005-04-25 15:56 ` M Taylor [this message]
2005-04-26 13:33 ` M Taylor
2005-04-26 14:05 ` Jeroen Vreeken
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2005-05-02 19:07 Sriram Chadalavada
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