Re: [PATCH 3 of 5] xen-netfront: Avoid unaligned accesses to IP header

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Oct 16 2008 - 05:13:19 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
From: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Align ip header to a 16 byte boundary to avoid unaligned
access like other drivers.
Without this patch, xen-netfront doesn't work well on ia64.

[ Jeff, this is the only patch in the series which is in your
territory. -J ]

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

applied


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