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* question about drivers/net/ethernet/sgi
@ 2013-08-13 15:43 Julia Lawall
  2013-08-22 13:16 ` Ralf Baechle
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Julia Lawall @ 2013-08-13 15:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ralf, linux-mips, netdev

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?

thanks,
julia

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* Re: question about drivers/net/ethernet/sgi
  2013-08-13 15:43 question about drivers/net/ethernet/sgi Julia Lawall
@ 2013-08-22 13:16 ` Ralf Baechle
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Baechle @ 2013-08-22 13:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Julia Lawall; +Cc: linux-mips, netdev

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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