Re: [PATCH 1/3] add netdev_alloc_skb

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:24:51PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:31:36 +0200
> 
> > + *	%NULL is returned in there is no free memory. Although this function
> > + *	allocates memory it can be called from an interrupt.
>  ...
> > + *	%NULL is returned in there is no free memory.
> 
> Looks like a typo in both cases, I think you mean
> "NULL is returned _if_ there" not "in there"

Yes, Joe Perches already pointed that out in private.  This typo is copy
and pasted from the dev_alloc_skb kerneldoc, so this patch fixes up all
four occurances:


Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/skbuff.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/skbuff.h	2006-07-28 09:06:55.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/skbuff.h	2006-07-28 09:07:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@
  *	the headroom they think they need without accounting for the
  *	built in space. The built in space is used for optimisations.
  *
- *	%NULL is returned in there is no free memory.
+ *	%NULL is returned if there is no free memory.
  */
 static inline struct sk_buff *__dev_alloc_skb(unsigned int length,
 					      gfp_t gfp_mask)
@@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@
  *	the headroom they think they need without accounting for the
  *	built in space. The built in space is used for optimisations.
  *
- *	%NULL is returned in there is no free memory. Although this function
+ *	%NULL is returned if there is no free memory. Although this function
  *	allocates memory it can be called from an interrupt.
  */
 static inline struct sk_buff *dev_alloc_skb(unsigned int length)
@@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@
  *	the headroom they think they need without accounting for the
  *	built in space. The built in space is used for optimisations.
  *
- *	%NULL is returned in there is no free memory. Although this function
+ *	%NULL is returned if there is no free memory. Although this function
  *	allocates memory it can be called from an interrupt.
  */
 static inline struct sk_buff *netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
Index: linux-2.6/net/core/skbuff.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/core/skbuff.c	2006-07-28 09:06:51.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/net/core/skbuff.c	2006-07-28 09:07:26.000000000 +0200
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@
  *	the headroom they think they need without accounting for the
  *	built in space. The built in space is used for optimisations.
  *
- *	%NULL is returned in there is no free memory.
+ *	%NULL is returned if there is no free memory.
  */
 struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
 		unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask)