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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] skge: use dev_alloc_skb
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:28:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060829132810.30a18d72@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060829112336.GA23975@infradead.org>

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:23:36 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 04:19:37PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > To avoid problems with buggy protocols that assume extra header space,
> > use dev_alloc_skb() when allocating receive buffers.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
> > 
> > --- skge-2.6.orig/drivers/net/skge.c
> > +++ skge-2.6/drivers/net/skge.c
> > @@ -827,7 +827,8 @@ static int skge_rx_fill(struct skge_port
> >  	do {
> >  		struct sk_buff *skb;
> >  
> > -		skb = alloc_skb(skge->rx_buf_size + NET_IP_ALIGN, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +		skb = __dev_alloc_skb(skge->rx_buf_size + NET_IP_ALIGN,
> > +				      GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> While you're at it please use netdev_alloc_skb.
> 

Okay, that will be in the next clump.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-29 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-28 23:19 [PATCH 0/5] skge update Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-28 23:19 ` [PATCH 1/5] skge: cleanup suspend/resume code Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-29 21:18   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-28 23:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] skge: pci bus post fixes Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-28 23:19 ` [PATCH 3/5] skge: use dev_alloc_skb Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-29 11:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-29 20:28     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-08-28 23:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] skge: use ethX for irq assigments Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-28 23:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] skge: version 1.7 Stephen Hemminger

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