From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] introduce ARCH_CAN_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:09:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206040151.17059.10.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206038734.16475.153.camel@johannes.berg>
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 19:45 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> +For some ethernet hardware that cannot DMA to unaligned addresses like
> +4*n+2 or non-ethernet hardware, this can be a problem, and it is then
> +required to copy the incoming frame into an aligned buffer. Because this is
> +unnecessary on architectures that can do unaligned accesses, the code can be
> +made depend on CONFIG_HAVE_UNALIGNED_ACCESS_SUPPORT like so:
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_UNALIGNED_ACCESS_SUPPORT
> + skb = original skb
> +#else
> + skb = copy skb
> +#endif
> +
Couldn't this just be made an inline in a networking header somewhere,
instead of ifdefs in the code?
Harvey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-20 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-20 14:34 [PATCH/RFC] introduce ARCH_CAN_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1206023695.16475.137.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-20 14:39 ` Will Newton
[not found] ` <87a5b0800803200739v6d222afck850f221eae1edd70-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-20 14:58 ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 18:13 ` Sam Ravnborg
[not found] ` <20080320181310.GA17884-QabhHTsIXMSnlFQ6Q1D1Y0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-20 18:35 ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 18:39 ` [PATCH/RFC v2] " Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1206038373.16475.150.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-20 18:45 ` [PATCH/RFC v3] " Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 19:09 ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
2008-03-20 19:12 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1206038734.16475.153.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-20 19:41 ` Sam Ravnborg
[not found] ` <20080320194101.GC17884-QabhHTsIXMSnlFQ6Q1D1Y0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-20 19:50 ` [PATCH/RFC v4] introduce HAVE_UNALIGNED_ACCESS_SUPPORT " Johannes Berg
2008-03-21 8:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-20 21:13 ` [PATCH/RFC v2] introduce ARCH_CAN_UNALIGNED_ACCESS " David Miller
[not found] ` <20080320.141307.173590705.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-20 21:21 ` Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1206048106.16475.161.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-20 21:27 ` David Miller
2008-03-20 22:03 ` John W. Linville
[not found] ` <20080320220348.GC1330-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-20 22:10 ` David Miller
2008-03-25 14:11 ` [PATCH/RFC v5] introduce HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS " Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <1206454302.16475.269.camel-YfaajirXv214zXjbi5bjpg@public.gmane.org>
2008-04-02 10:24 ` Johannes Berg
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