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DateTue, 01 Sep 1998 14:52:38 +0000
FromDavid Hollister <>
SubjectRe: Uniform Driver Interface (UDI)
Jes Sorensen wrote:
> 
> Its going to be very interesting to see how they will solve the
> mbuf<->skbuff conversion in a reasonable way ;-)

There is no mbuf to skbuff conversion.  UDI will use a generic buffer
descriptor I'm sure.  They'll have to convert between skbuffs and a UDI
buffer, but that's a no brainer after doing it with mbufs!  Anyway,
mbufs and skbuffs aren't really all that dis-similar.

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