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<title>[NET]: Remove gratuitous use of skb-&gt;tail in network drivers.</title>
<updated>2005-06-28T22:25:31+00:00</updated>
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<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2005-06-28T22:25:31+00:00</published>
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Many drivers use skb-&gt;tail unnecessarily.

In these situations, the code roughly looks like:

	dev = dev_alloc_skb(...);

	[optional] skb_reserve(skb, ...);

	... skb-&gt;tail ...

But even if the skb_reserve() happens, skb-&gt;data equals
skb-&gt;tail.  So it doesn't make any sense to use anything
other than skb-&gt;data in these cases.

Another case was the s2io.c driver directly mucking with
the skb-&gt;data and skb-&gt;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-&gt;head, skb-&gt;tail, and skb-&gt;end pointers are removed, and
replaced with skb-&gt;head_room and skb-&gt;tail_room integers.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
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Many drivers use skb-&gt;tail unnecessarily.

In these situations, the code roughly looks like:

	dev = dev_alloc_skb(...);

	[optional] skb_reserve(skb, ...);

	... skb-&gt;tail ...

But even if the skb_reserve() happens, skb-&gt;data equals
skb-&gt;tail.  So it doesn't make any sense to use anything
other than skb-&gt;data in these cases.

Another case was the s2io.c driver directly mucking with
the skb-&gt;data and skb-&gt;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-&gt;head, skb-&gt;tail, and skb-&gt;end pointers are removed, and
replaced with skb-&gt;head_room and skb-&gt;tail_room integers.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
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<title>[netdrvr] Fix register_netdev() races in older ISA net drivers</title>
<updated>2005-05-13T00:11:55+00:00</updated>
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<name></name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
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<published>2005-05-13T00:11:55+00:00</published>
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<title>Linux-2.6.12-rc2</title>
<updated>2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org</email>
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<published>2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00</published>
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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!
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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!
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