Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:49712 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753509AbYAZNwt (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:52:49 -0500 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:53:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20080126.055302.166290523.davem@davemloft.net> (sfid-20080126_135251_721283_726C78A3) To: linville@tuxdriver.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mb@bu3sch.de, dcbw@redhat.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080125224631.GH14687@tuxdriver.com> References: <20080125211815.GF14687@tuxdriver.com> <20080125224631.GH14687@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "John W. Linville" Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:46:31 -0500 > Given that we don't have a CONFIG_MUST_ALIGN at present, I'm not sure > it is worth adding one for either an iwlwifi fix or a mac80211 one. > Or are there other issues that might be resolved or aided by such > a definition? It doesn't seem to have been needed so far. We do have a need, look at the drivers like Tulip that encode this into a big list of architecture ifdef checks.