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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH (resubmit)]: fix lro_gen_skb() alignment
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:32:01 -0800 (PST)
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From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:55:06 -0500

> 
> Add a field to the lro_mgr struct so that drivers can specify how much
> padding is required to align layer 3 headers when a packet is copied
> into a freshly allocated skb by inet_lro.c:lro_gen_skb().  Without
> padding, skbs generated by LRO will cause alignment warnings on
> architectures which require strict alignment (seen on sparc64).
> 
> Myri10GE is updated to use this field.
> 
> Signed off by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>

Applied, thanks Andrew.