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From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: trying to track a change to drivers/isdn/usb-gigaset.c
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 18:23:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <463F527B.4030509@imap.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070507.034117.115910272.davem@davemloft.net>

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David Miller schrieb:
> [ netdev@vger.kernel.org is the place to discuss kernel networking
>   issues, thanks ]

OIC. My bad. I didn't make the connection from "skb" to "networking". Sorry.

> It was a change done so that we could hide the skb data buffering
> details to the point where we could change the protocol header
> pointers into 32-bit offsets which saves 4 bytes per such pointer per
> protocol header stored in struct sk_buff.

Thanks for the explanation.

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-07 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <463EF77A.9020808@imap.cc>
2007-05-07 10:41 ` trying to track a change to drivers/isdn/usb-gigaset.c David Miller
2007-05-07 16:23   ` Tilman Schmidt [this message]

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