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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Subject: return values for hard_start_xmit and dev_queue_xmit
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:34:14 -0700
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While trying to get pktgen to effectively use VLANs to send traffic,
I noticed that the vlan code always returns 0 from it's hard_start_xmit
method.  Since it calls dev_queue_xmit inside that method, I tried
returning the value that dev_queue_xmit returns.  It seems that the
return values have different meanings because this causes crashes due
to freeing skbs when I shouldn't be...

The dev_queue_xmit method is fairly well documented in dev.c, but
there are zero comments in the netdevice.h file to explain what the
acceptable return values for hard_start_xmit are.

Does anyone know if there is a definative guide to the return values
for hard_start_xmit?

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com