On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:01:21 +0100 Paul McEnery <pmcenery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It appears that the ipheth driver requires a trivial patch on kernel >= 2.6.37: > > --- ipheth.c.orig 2011-04-20 15:42:09.810578868 -0400 > +++ ipheth.c 2011-04-20 15:37:33.165341931 -0400 > @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ > usb_buffer_free(dev, size, addr, dma) > #endif > +#undef NET_IP_ALIGN > +#define NET_IP_ALIGN 2 > + > #define USB_VENDOR_APPLE 0x05ac > #define USB_PRODUCT_IPHETH 0x1290 > #define USB_PRODUCT_IPHETH_3G 0x1292 > > > Please can this be included? > > Many thanks. > Paul. Redefining NET_IP_ALIGN is not the correct fix. If the driver requires different alignment, it should define it's own constant and explain the rationale. More likely the driver just is written incorrectly, since unaligned DMA is more difficult for hardware. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
