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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: question on ndo_start_xmit()
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 17:46:05 +0100
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On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 15:39 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is it possible that ndo_start_xmit is called with skb==NULL ?

Only through a bug in the caller.  It is not a valid argument.

Ben.

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