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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-06-28 15:25:31 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-06-28 15:25:31 -0700
commit689be43945e9ca7dd704522e55af1b8a73a994d3 (patch)
tree6dcc7a5675a9a2b98c36ee54f2ba4386f84efe83 /net/core/dev.c
parentf835e471b557c45d2e5701ea5215f6e739b4eb39 (diff)
[NET]: Remove gratuitous use of skb->tail in network drivers.
Many drivers use skb->tail unnecessarily. In these situations, the code roughly looks like: dev = dev_alloc_skb(...); [optional] skb_reserve(skb, ...); ... skb->tail ... But even if the skb_reserve() happens, skb->data equals skb->tail. So it doesn't make any sense to use anything other than skb->data in these cases. Another case was the s2io.c driver directly mucking with the skb->data and skb->tail pointers. It really just wanted to do an skb_reserve(), so that's what the code was changed to do instead. Another reason I'm making this change as it allows some SKB cleanups I have planned simpler to merge. In those cleanups, skb->head, skb->tail, and skb->end pointers are removed, and replaced with skb->head_room and skb->tail_room integers. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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