Hi,
Referring to Alan's article on "Network buffers and memory mangement", he
is the only person who has ever mentioned something about
skb_queue_head_init() is some lines. (found out by lots of googling).
It seems previously there was a member in the 'device' struct called
'buffers' for packets with different kernel priorities.
What is the current equivalent feature now (2.2 & 2.4)? More specifically,
do i need to initialize a sk_buff_head for every software device I create?
And which routines directly act on these queues?
TIA
Regards,
Amit
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > How do I provide an ioctl interface to the virtual devices which allows
> > creation, deletion, configuration of these devices when i *havent* yet
> > created/registered even a single virtual device?
>
> Well observed. The answer is there isn't a mechanism for doing it. You
> either register a char device or a "fake" master network device that
> supports "make me a new one of these" ioctls
>
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