From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about drivers/net/ethernet/sgi
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:16:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130822131617.GZ2163@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1308131742100.2263@hadrien>
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 05:43:32PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> The files in drivers/net/ethernet/sgi (meth.c and ioc3-eth.c) both use
> alloc_skb. Is there a reason why they do not use netdev_alloc_skb, like
> most other ethernet drivers?
netdev_alloc_skb is such newfangled (2.6.19) interface - and both of these
drivers date back to the 2.3 days. So the answer is, nobody bothered so
far.
Ralf
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2013-08-13 15:43 question about drivers/net/ethernet/sgi Julia Lawall
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