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SubjectRe: Headerless packets hitting ethernet?
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:

>If we suddenely swapped them for skb_alloc and skb_put every driver writer
>would go ballistic

Give the whole mess really new and meaningful names, and #define the
old ones onto the new ones. Then fade the old ones out over one
development release.

Sounds like 2.7 (3.1?) stuff.... :-)

Ciao
Henning
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