Re: [PATCH 1/1] AX88179_178A: Add FLAG_HW_IPALIGN to determine whetherreserving NET_IP_ALIGN bytes for an SKB.

[Freddy Xin]

On 2013å12æ16æ 18:09, David Laight wrote:
> > I was thinking of something like: skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, length 
> > + dev->skb_align, gfp); if (NET_IP_ALIGN && skb && !(ev->driver_flags 
> > & FLAG_HW_IPALIGN)) skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN); It might even be 
> > reasonable to remove the length adjustment - provided that all the 
> > later code uses the skb length. David 

Thanks for your advice.
In the way you advised, does the dev->skb_align equal
to NET_IP_ALIGN in the case that HW doesn't supoort
IP alignment?
In other words, dev->skb_align should be initialized to
NET_IP_ALIGN in USBNET, and I can change its value to
0 in AX88179_178A driver, right?

    Freddy

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