Re: alignment issues on netif_rx

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

   Date:   Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:41:32 +0100 (CET)
   From: Kai Germaschewski <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

   Without the above fix of aligning skb->data on a 4-byte boundary, the
   packet would get dropped later on.

   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.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@xxxxxxxxxx