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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip multicast route bug fix
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:45:27 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:17:25 +0400

> Hello!
> 
> > Wouldn't it be better to have a consistent interface (skb always freed),
> > and clone the skb if needed for deferred processing?
> 
> I think you mean this.
> 
> Note, it is real skb_clone(), not alloc_skb(). Equeued skb contains
> the whole half-prepared netlink message plus room for the rest.
> It could be also skb_copy(), if we want to be puristic about mangling
> cloned data, but original copy is really not going to be used.  

Applied, thanks Alexey.