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bgmac: fix unaligned accesses to network headers
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Without this patch I get many unaligned access warnings per packet,
this patches fixes them all. This should improve performance on some
systems like mips.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Hauke Mehrtens authored and David S. Miller committed Feb 18, 2013
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
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Expand Up @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static int bgmac_dma_rx_read(struct bgmac *bgmac, struct bgmac_dma_ring *ring,
bgmac_err(bgmac, "Found poisoned packet at slot %d, DMA issue!\n",
ring->start);
} else {
new_skb = netdev_alloc_skb(bgmac->net_dev, len);
new_skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(bgmac->net_dev, len);
if (new_skb) {
skb_put(new_skb, len);
skb_copy_from_linear_data_offset(skb, BGMAC_RX_FRAME_OFFSET,
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