From: "Vladimir Kondratiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:32:12 +0200
> Thus, I believe, for IP stack it is wise to have IP header aligned by > drivers. I warn once, so it do not flood system log with messages. It is wise only on systems that need it, and most can (albeit expensively) handle the unaligned access, so it is absolutely not a requirement in those cases. Look, the point still stands, this thing is going to crap into people's kernel logs and that is not acceptable. Furthermore, there are drivers that do alignment conditionally based upon whether the platform can handle it transparently or not. They do this because fixing the alignment might result in expensive copies. So these drivers will always generate warnings, even though it is entirely intentional. This is just a bad idea, sorry. And anyone who is truly interested in this kind of work can add this as a temporary debugging patch to their tree during development. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
