From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: M Taylor Subject: Re: MKISS DRIVER PATCH - for layer 3 longword alignment in m68000 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:33:33 +0100 Message-ID: <20050426143333.A5965@pull.privacy.nb.ca> References: <20050424204044.77497.qmail@web21602.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050424204044.77497.qmail@web21602.mail.yahoo.com>; from swenggsri@yahoo.com on Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:40:43PM -0700 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Cc: Linux-Hams@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:40:43PM -0700, Sriram Chadalavada wrote: > FTP, SSH working over an AX.25 link but faced kernel > panics due to memory alignment issues in the mkiss > driver, whenever (ICMP, TCP) packets were received > on the relevant 'kiss' interface. > > 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. http://www.privacy.nb.ca/~mctylr/uClinux/mkiss-skb-align.patch