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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] forcedeth: scatter gather and segmentation offload support
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:59:33 +0200
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Ayaz Abdulla <AAbdulla@nvidia.com> :
> We give the fragments in that order to ensure they are all setup before
> hardware starts looking at them.

If you are curious of different ways to do it, you can look at:
- drivers/net/r8169.c::rtl8169_start_xmit
- drivers/net/skge.c::skge_xmit_frame

drivers/net/bnx2.c::bnx2_start_xmit seems bogus.

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Ueimor