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> Then what about hardware that can't dma ethernet to non-aligned address.
> Sky2 hardware breaks if DMA is not 8 byte aligned.  IMHO the IP stack should
> handle any alignment, and do the appropriate memove if the CPU requires 
> alignment.

Wouldn't that better be handled in the driver rather than having the
test in the generic RX path?

johannes

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