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SubjectRe: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:10:11PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Traditionally, if the NIC driver is accessing unaligned data, it should
> be using get/put_unaligned().

The driver isn't, the networking stack is (it has to). For more examples
where this behaviour is required: PPPoE, VLAN...

-ben
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