Re: [PATCH v3] sky2: copy received packets on inefficientunaligned architecture

[David Miller]

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 15:10:27 -0700

> Modified from original patch from Chris.
> 
> The sky2 driver has to have 8 byte alignment of receive buffer
> on some chip versions. On architectures which don't support efficient
> unaligned access this doesn't work very well. The solution is to
> just copy all received packets which is what the driver already
> does for small packets.
> 
> This allows the driver to be used on the Tilera TILEmpower-Gx, since
> the tile architecture doesn't currently handle kernel unaligned accesses,
> just userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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