Re: alignment issues on netif_rx

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:06:21AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:

>    Question is: Is this the right way to handle this problem, or should
>    netif_rx be smarter and take unalignment skbs?
>    BTW: Would the above realigning make sense on other archs, too
>    (for performance reasons)?
> 
> No, the MIPS port must handle unaligned memory accesses traps
> in kernel mode and fix them up.  Every port is required to
> do this, these can happen anywhere in the networking.

We do handle them on MIPS - since ca. '95 or so ...

  Ralf