skb tailroom insufficient handling

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Hello,

if a netdevice needs some tailroom to append to an egress skbuff some
device-specific trailer, and the skbuff passed to 
hard_start_xmit() does not have any room left, I assume the skbuff must
be copied using skb_copy_expand.

Is there any nicer way to expand the tail that can avoid copies?

Or better is any way (planned in future kernel relases) that can allow a
netdevice to specify to the upper layers that it wants to reserve some
tailroom, similar to hard_header_len?

Thank you

-Guglielmo
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