On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:48:07PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2007/11/24/442496 > > Quoth Herbert Xu: > > "OK. Let me clarify this a bit more. We require at least one > of the following rules to be met: > > * the IPv4/IPv6 header is aligned by 8 bytes on reception; > * or the platform provides unaligned exception handlers. > (Hmmm..."aligned by 8 bytes", so our warning and my iwlwifi patch > may still not be right...) http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2007/11/25/443558 More from Herbert: "Sorry I was wrong about the 8 bytes requirement. Although the IPv6 protocol does try to maintain an 8-byte alignment the Linux stack never does anything that requires that. So 4 bytes is enough." Phew! John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
