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[PATCH 1/3] ath9k-htc: replace __dev_alloc_skb with alloc_skb in ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_rx_urbs

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tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> In ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_rx_urbs, ath9k-htc will pass skb->data into
> usb hcd and usb hcd will do dma mapping and unmapping to the buffer
> pointed by skb->data, so we should pass a cache-line aligned address.
> 
> This patch replace __dev_alloc_skb with alloc_skb to make skb->data
> pointed to a cacheline aligned address simply since ath9k-htc does not
> skb_push on the skb.
> 

AFAIK, the only architecture that has a requirement to override NET_SKB_PAD
is powerpc, and it does it anyway - by setting it to a cacheline size.

So why do we need to do this ?

Sujith
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