Re: [PATCH v4] net: add Faraday FTMAC100 10/100 Ethernet driver

[David Miller]

From: Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert.chuang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:07:48 +0800

> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:51 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Just emit garbage bytes into the sub-word alignment padding if the chip
>> wants to word align it's DMA writes.
> 
> Not sure what do you mean. The problem is that HW does not accept a
> base address of RX buffer which is not 8 bytes aligned.

I am saying this is what hardware should do if it has such a
restriction.
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