On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:28:32AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:27:12 +0200
>
> > We need a fixup patch for the existing wrong comments on dev_alloc_skb
> > anyway - but if you prefer to respin the netdev_alloc_skb and have
>
From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:27:12 +0200
> We need a fixup patch for the existing wrong comments on dev_alloc_skb
> anyway - but if you prefer to respin the netdev_alloc_skb and have
> another patch to fixup the original comments I can do that aswell.
I in
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:24:24AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:08:51 +0200
>
> > Yes, Joe Perches already pointed that out in private. This typo is copy
> > and pasted from the dev_alloc_skb kerneldoc, so this patch fixes up
From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:08:51 +0200
> Yes, Joe Perches already pointed that out in private. This typo is copy
> and pasted from the dev_alloc_skb kerneldoc, so this patch fixes up all
> four occurances:
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PR
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:24:51PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:31:36 +0200
>
> > + * %NULL is returned in there is no free memory. Although this function
> > + * allocates memory it can be called from an interrupt.
> ...
> >
From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:31:36 +0200
> + * %NULL is returned in there is no free memory. Although this function
> + * allocates memory it can be called from an interrupt.
...
> + * %NULL is returned in there is no free memory.
Looks like a typo
Add a dev_alloc_skb variant that takes a struct net_device * paramater.
For now that paramater is unused, but I'll use it to allocate the skb
from node-local memory in a follow-up patch. Also there have been some
other plans mentioned on the list that can use it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
