Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: Audit drivers to identify those needing IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING cleared

David Miller
2011-07-28T05:45:57Z

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:05:38 -0400

> After the last patch, We are left in a state in which only drivers calling
> ether_setup have IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING set (we assume that drivers touching real
> hardware call ether_setup for their net_devices and don't hold any state in
> their skbs. There are a handful of drivers that violate this assumption of
> course, and need to be fixed up. This patch identifies those drivers, and marks
> them as not being able to support the safe transmission of skbs by clearning the
> IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING flag in priv_flags
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

Applied.