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Re: handing cloned frames to netif_rx()?

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On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:58:05PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> Ok. Yes, we will of course adhere to that, but I was wondering whether
> maybe the net stack assumes somewhere that a packet it got from the
> driver can be written to w/o copying.

All parts of the rx stack support clone handling because they can always
run after another handler (e.g., AF_PACKET) which may have cloned the
packet.

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