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>
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:36:42PM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Summary: natsemi: incorrect initialization of IPv6 Neighbor-
> discovery multicast
I've got a pair of FA312 cards and this problem has bothered me
for ages. This has finally prompted me to do something about it :)
Turns out that somebody wasn't following the documentation. We were
doing 16-bit writes to 32-bit registers which led to some addresses
working and others not so lucky.
This patch should fix the problem.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
David S. Miller
Herbert Xu
Linus Torvalds