[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4]: arm: Kirkwood: See to it that sent data is 8-byte aligned

[Prafulla Wadaskar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Kagstrom [mailto:simon.kagstrom at netinsight.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 4:36 PM
> To: U-Boot ML; Prafulla Wadaskar
> Subject: [PATCH 4/4]: arm: Kirkwood: See to it that sent data 
> is 8-byte aligned
> 
> U-boot might use non-8-byte-aligned addresses for sending 
> data, which the kwgbe_send doesn't accept (bootp does this 
> for me). This patch copies the data to be sent to a temporary 
> buffer if it is non-aligned.
Kirkwood egiga driver may not be the only client for this kind of requirements. Any Ethernet controller using DMA will require aligned data pointer.
I would suggest either upper layers should pass the aligned buffer pointers
Or
this patch should go in net/ethic, so that other drivers can benefit

Regards..
Prafulla . .