From 689be43945e9ca7dd704522e55af1b8a73a994d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:25:31 -0700 Subject: [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 Acked-by: Jeff Garzik --- drivers/net/lance.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/lance.c') 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) -- cgit v1.2.3