From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin LaHaise Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:11:28 +0000 Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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... -ben -- "The software industry today survives only through an unstated agreement not to stir things up too much. We must hope this lawsuit [by SCO] isn't the big stirring spoon." -- Ian Lance Taylor, Linux Journal, June 2003