On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 05:43:32PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > The files in drivers/net/ethernet/sgi (meth.c and ioc3-eth.c) both use > alloc_skb. Is there a reason why they do not use netdev_alloc_skb, like > most other ethernet drivers? netdev_alloc_skb is such newfangled (2.6.19) interface - and both of these drivers date back to the 2.3 days. So the answer is, nobody bothered so far. Ralf
