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Hi Michal, it is the receive side - (chan.hdrlen is set correctly) -- on the receive side you'll the SKB from the device AND headroom is up to the device... Michal Ostrowski wrote: > If you set the hdrlen field of the ppp_channel that pppoatm registers > (pvcc->chan.hdrlen, in pppoatm_assign_vcc()) then ppp_generic will > always over-allocate skb space to allow for extra headers to be pushed > in. This mechanism was put is so that we wouldn't have to copy the > frame in order to slap on PPPoE headers onto it. I think it's a good > idea to be doing this, especially if you're going to play with > hard_header_len. > > If you look at pppoatm_send(), you'll see that you do an > skb_realloc_headroom if there's no space for the headers. If > pvcc->chan.hdrlen is set properly then this will be the exceptional, > rather than the common case. > > > Here is my "better fix". In pppoatm, we should be increasing the > > device header length appropriately. ie. dev->hard_header_len needs to > > be increased in the pppoatm driver when vc-encaps is used. > > > > Franks a lot, > > David S. Miller > > davem@redhat.com > > -- > Michal Ostrowski > mostrows@speakeasy.net -- Till Immanuel Patzschke mailto: tip@internetwork-ag.de interNetwork AG Phone: +49-(0)611-1731-121 Bierstadter Str. 7 Fax: +49-(0)611-1731-31 D-65189 Wiesbaden Web: http://www.internetwork-ag.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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