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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Best way to hook incoming eth pkts?
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:17:16 -0700
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:15:12 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:

> Tangent, from reading dev.c:  Is it ok that dev_queue_xmit_nit does not
> check the return value of struct packet_type's ->func hook?  It seems to
> do so in all other cases...

The return value isn't really used currently.
It provides congestion heuristics that maybe eventually
will be taken advantage of.