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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Gigabit Ethernet driver of Topcliff PCH
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Hi Eric

Thank you for your information.
I will confirm other drivers.

Thanks, Ohtake(OKISemi)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Dumazet" <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "Masayuki Ohtake" <masa-korg@dsn.okisemi.com>
Cc: "Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@vyatta.com>; "Sam Ravnborg" <sam@ravnborg.org>; "Joe Perches" <joe@perches.com>;
"LKML" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; "ML netdev" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>; "Greg Rose" <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>;
"Maxime Bizon" <mbizon@freebox.fr>; "Kristoffer Glembo" <kristoffer@gaisler.com>; "Ralf Baechle" <ralf@linux-mips.org>;
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"MeeGo" <meego-dev@meego.com>; "Wang, Qi" <qi.wang@intel.com>; "Wang, Yong Y" <yong.y.wang@intel.com>; "Andrew"
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"Toshiharu Okada" <okada533@dsn.okisemi.com>; "Tomoya Morinaga" <morinaga526@dsn.okisemi.com>; "Takahiro Shimizu"
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Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Gigabit Ethernet driver of Topcliff PCH


> Le vendredi 03 septembre 2010 a 22:32 +0900, Masayuki Ohtake a ecrit :
> > Hi Eric and Stephen
> >
> > Thank you for your suggestion.
> >
> > I tried modification of "dev->hard_header_len".
> > However, there was no changed to a format of SKB received by kernel.
> > [Header:14octet] + [payload]
> >
> > So, I can not a single memcpy.
>
> Hmm, maybe you did this at the wrong place ?
>
> Take a look at other drivers how they do this
>
> (network stack default hard_header_len to 14, in net/ethernet/eth.c,
> function ether_setup())
>
>
> find drivers/net | xargs grep -n hard_header_len
>
> Example in drivers/net/wan/hdlc.c
>
> static void hdlc_setup_dev(struct net_device *dev)
> {
> /* Re-init all variables changed by HDLC protocol drivers,
> * including ether_setup() called from hdlc_raw_eth.c.
> */
> dev->flags = IFF_POINTOPOINT | IFF_NOARP;
> dev->priv_flags = IFF_WAN_HDLC;
> dev->mtu = HDLC_MAX_MTU;
> dev->type = ARPHRD_RAWHDLC;
> dev->hard_header_len = 16;
> dev->addr_len = 0;
> dev->header_ops = &hdlc_null_ops;
> }
>
>
>




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