From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "'netdev@oss.sgi.com'" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: return values for hard_start_xmit and dev_queue_xmit
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:53:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <416D79B1.1090707@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416D7526.8050206@candelatech.com>
Ben Greear wrote:
> The dev_queue_xmit method is fairly well documented in dev.c, but
> there are zero comments in the netdevice.h file to explain what the
> acceptable return values for hard_start_xmit are.
Actually, looks like I'm wrong here. The comments in dev.c say that
error codes are < 0, but in fact, this can easily return NET_XMIT_DROP
which is a positive value (1).
Maybe the truth is that any non-zero return value from dev_queue_xmit
is an error?
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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2004-10-13 18:34 return values for hard_start_xmit and dev_queue_xmit Ben Greear
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