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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2005-06-28 15:25:31 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2005-06-28 15:25:31 -0700 |
| commit | 689be43945e9ca7dd704522e55af1b8a73a994d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 6dcc7a5675a9a2b98c36ee54f2ba4386f84efe83 /drivers/net/lance.c | |
| parent | f835e471b557c45d2e5701ea5215f6e739b4eb39 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-689be43945e9ca7dd704522e55af1b8a73a994d3.tar.gz lwn-689be43945e9ca7dd704522e55af1b8a73a994d3.zip | |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/lance.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/lance.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/lance.c b/drivers/net/lance.c index ca90f0d1e4b0..b4929beb33b2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/lance.c +++ b/drivers/net/lance.c @@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ lance_init_ring(struct net_device *dev, int gfp) lp->rx_skbuff[i] = skb; if (skb) { skb->dev = dev; - rx_buff = skb->tail; + rx_buff = skb->data; } else rx_buff = kmalloc(PKT_BUF_SZ, GFP_DMA | gfp); if (rx_buff == NULL) |