From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RESEND] drivers/net/ethernet: dev_alloc_skb to
 netdev_alloc_skb
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:40:34 -0800
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Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "Pradeep A. Dalvi" <netdev@pradeepdalvi.com>
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On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 23:58 +0530, Pradeep A. Dalvi wrote:
> Replaced deprecating dev_alloc_skb with netdev_alloc_skb in drivers/net/ethernet
>   - Removed extra skb->dev = dev after netdev_alloc_skb
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/lance.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/lance.c
[]
> @@ -871,13 +871,12 @@ lance_init_ring(struct net_device *dev, gfp_t gfp)
>  		struct sk_buff *skb;
>  		void *rx_buff;
>  
> -		skb = alloc_skb(PKT_BUF_SZ, GFP_DMA | gfp);
> +		skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, PKT_BUF_SZ);

This change seems suspect.
I stopped reading here.

Perhaps you should break this large patch
into multiple separate patches.

The trivial, obviously correct
and the possibly broken.