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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>, "Sirotkin, Alexander" <demiurg@ti.com>
Subject: Re: network driver that uses skb destructor
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:48:06 +0100
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> I wrote a patch to allow chaining of skb destructors, which was fairly
> simple and would allow both the driver and the upper layers to set
> their destructors. If there's any interet, I could probably resurrect
> it.

It may also be useful for the ATM layer.  At the moment there is a
vcc->pop routine that frees skb's, it should really be a destructor.
Check out this email:
	http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/linux-atm/msg05485.html
However AFAICS destructors would need to be chained.

Duncan.