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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Subject: question about drivers/net/ethernet/sgi
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:43:32 +0200 (CEST)
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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