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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] hippi: change to not use skb private
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:54:16 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:38:58 -0700

> It looks like the following would fix hippi to not have to put
> fields in sk_buff. The ifield looks appears to to be additional
> header information that is being passed in the skb but could just
> be put in the header.

I can't see any problem with this patch, and it fixes
all the realloc stuff that has to potentially occur
in the transmit path.