From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
To: rahul b jain cs student <rbj2@oak.njit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sk_buff structure
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:24:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040622212403.21346.qmail@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:48:27 EDT." <Pine.GSO.4.58.0406221647570.10319@chrome.njit.edu>
> In this structure there are pointers called headroom, data, tailroom and
> end. Does anyone know what these are used for. Or can anyone point me to a
> good explanation for these fields.
There is a basic discussion in chapter 14 of Linux Device Drivers which
you can read online at http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html.
jon
Jonathan Corbet
Executive editor, LWN.net
corbet@lwn.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-22 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-22 20:48 sk_buff structure rahul b jain cs student
2004-06-22 21:24 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2004-06-22 23:03 ` rahul b jain cs student
2004-06-23 18:45 ` Question about ip_rcv() function rahul b jain cs student
2004-06-23 18:50 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-23 20:22 ` rahul b jain cs student
2004-06-23 20:32 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-23 20:43 ` rahul b jain cs student
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