From: Brian Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:27:07 -0400
> The problem is that drivers don't necessarily align the address on the > correct boundary, so on some 64-bit arches this could be fatal. There's > ways around it since I did it in a previous life, but you'd need to copy > the addresses and hide them in the skb in the rare case, neither of > which is a great thing to do. Yes, the majority of the network drivers are only ensuring 32-bit alignment after the ethernet header currently on receive. They were designed with ipv4 in mind long ago and then the logic just gets copied everywhere. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
