Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263506AbTIWTYG (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:24:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263498AbTIWTXX (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:23:23 -0400 Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([63.247.75.124]:32959 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263488AbTIWTWf (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:22:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:22:31 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: Benjamin LaHaise Cc: "Luck, Tony" , "David S. Miller" , davidm@hpl.hp.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, peter@chubb.wattle.id.au, ak@suse.de, iod00d@hp.com, peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au, linux-ns83820@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 Message-ID: <20030923192231.GA8166@gtf.org> References: <20030923142925.A16490@kvack.org> <20030923191011.GA6460@gtf.org> <20030923151128.B17437@kvack.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030923151128.B17437@kvack.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 658 Lines: 19 On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:11:28PM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:10:11PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Traditionally, if the NIC driver is accessing unaligned data, it should > > be using get/put_unaligned(). > > The driver isn't, the networking stack is (it has to). For more examples > where this behaviour is required: PPPoE, VLAN... Oh, no argument.... agreed 100% Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/