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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] make d80211 use nl80211
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:36:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060824173659.GO3470@postel.suug.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608241909.35065.mb@bu3sch.de>

* Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> 2006-08-24 19:09
> On Thursday 24 August 2006 18:07, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > +	pkt = alloc_skb(framelen, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> if (!pkt)
> 	return -ENOMEM;
> 
> > +	pktdata = skb_put(pkt, framelen);
> > +	memcpy(pktdata, frame, framelen);
> 
> having two variables with almost the same name seems
> confusing to me. What about removing void *pktdata; and
> doing the following instead of the two lines above?
> 
> memcpy(skb_put(pkt, framelen), frame, framelen);
> 
> That is also how it's done in lots of other networking code.

You might want to use 'skb' instead of 'pkt', everyone
has got used to it.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-24 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-22 13:53 [RFC] make d80211 use nl80211 Johannes Berg
2006-08-24 14:05 ` Jiri Benc
2006-08-24 16:07 ` Johannes Berg
2006-08-24 17:09   ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-24 17:36     ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2006-08-25 11:02   ` [RFC take3] " Johannes Berg

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