From 689be43945e9ca7dd704522e55af1b8a73a994d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:25:31 -0700 Subject: [NET]: Remove gratuitous use of skb->tail in network drivers. Many drivers use skb->tail unnecessarily. In these situations, the code roughly looks like: dev = dev_alloc_skb(...); [optional] skb_reserve(skb, ...); ... skb->tail ... But even if the skb_reserve() happens, skb->data equals skb->tail. So it doesn't make any sense to use anything other than skb->data in these cases. Another case was the s2io.c driver directly mucking with the skb->data and skb->tail pointers. It really just wanted to do an skb_reserve(), so that's what the code was changed to do instead. Another reason I'm making this change as it allows some SKB cleanups I have planned simpler to merge. In those cleanups, skb->head, skb->tail, and skb->end pointers are removed, and replaced with skb->head_room and skb->tail_room integers. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Jeff Garzik --- drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c b/drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c index b8a9b395c5ea..887d7245fe7b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c +++ b/drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c @@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ static void xircom_init_ring(struct net_device *dev) break; skb->dev = dev; /* Mark as being used by this device. */ tp->rx_ring[i].status = Rx0DescOwned; /* Owned by Xircom chip */ - tp->rx_ring[i].buffer1 = virt_to_bus(skb->tail); + tp->rx_ring[i].buffer1 = virt_to_bus(skb->data); } tp->dirty_rx = (unsigned int)(i - RX_RING_SIZE); @@ -1291,7 +1291,7 @@ xircom_rx(struct net_device *dev) if (skb == NULL) break; skb->dev = dev; /* Mark as being used by this device. */ - tp->rx_ring[entry].buffer1 = virt_to_bus(skb->tail); + tp->rx_ring[entry].buffer1 = virt_to_bus(skb->data); work_done++; } tp->rx_ring[entry].status = Rx0DescOwned; -- cgit v1.2.3