[PATCH 5/8] lguest: trivial guest network driver

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On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 00:57 +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:47:55PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > 
> > It's also used to generate dma structs for outgoing packets.  In that
> > case, skb_headlen() == 0:
> 
> I see, in that case you're guaranteed to have no fragments.
> Still it feels a bit weird to have a length field that only
> applies to the header part.

Indeed.  In future if I want to create fragmented skbs for receive
(large MTU support), I would actually set skb->len and skb->datalen and
then could avoid the extra argument.

Cheers,
Rusty.




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