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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:15:53 +0100

> If hardware is buggy, driver should focus on security first,
> performance doesnt matter in this case.

Copying every packet is way too much of a performance hit to
accept.

Things are not so black and white, there are shades of grey.

We can fix this without making things so slow, try harder...