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Subject: RE: [PATCH] [V3] Add non-Virtex5 support for LL TEMAC driver
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> 
> Yes I see how it's used, but it only allows you to reserve 2 bytes in the skb with no options.


Really ? This would be a bug !

__alloc_skb() uses kmalloc(XXXX), this gives you the guarantee you want,
or maybe comment you wrote is not what is _really_ necessary ?

/* Align the IP data in the packet on word boundaries as MicroBlaze
 * needs it.
 */