On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Herbert Xu wrote:
David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think we should revert that thing, it's caused more grief than
> anything else. I thought it was a complete waste of time from the
> get-go even assuming that fraglists within fraglists never occur...
I share your feelings towards this patch. However, what e1000 is doing
is broken. It should be filling in the frags array, not frag_list.
so we generally call dev_alloc_skb to get the receive buffers to give to
our hardware. When we use multiple receive buffers what is the right way
to allocate memory to give buffers to the hardware and then later, to
"chain" the descriptors together to make the packet? Using skb's is the
common way as far as I've understood it.
Your input on the correct way to do these things is greatly appreciated.
Jesse
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