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From: David Miller <davem@redhat.com>
To: Neil.Jerram@metaswitch.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/1] net: Add doc on how SKBs work
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:06:05 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140227.160605.1514355233421544.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393416659-10868-1-git-send-email-Neil.Jerram@metaswitch.com>

From: Neil Jerram <Neil.Jerram@metaswitch.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:10:58 +0000

> I'm ramping up on Linux networking and found the material at
> http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/skb_data.html very useful.  Therefore
> here is a patch to copy that into a Documentation/networking file in
> the Linux tree.
> 
> Is this kind of thing welcome?  If it is, I'm aware that:
> 
> - some of the details are out of date
> 
> - more material would be useful on other pointers into the data area,
>   such as the MAC and network headers
> 
> and would propose to work on addressing those in subsequent changes.

Putting knowingly inaccurate documentation into the tree can be worse
than no documentation at all.   I wrote that nearly 10 years ago.

I'll try to go through it and bring it up to date.  But no promises on
a time frame in which I'll be able to do that.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-27 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-26 12:10 [PATCH net-next 0/1] net: Add doc on how SKBs work Neil Jerram
2014-02-26 12:10 ` [PATCH net-next 1/1] " Neil Jerram
2014-02-27 21:06 ` David Miller [this message]

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