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/natsemi.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/natsemi.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/natsemi.c b/drivers/net/natsemi.c index babb59e146e..9d6d2548c2d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/natsemi.c +++ b/drivers/net/natsemi.c @@ -1926,7 +1926,7 @@ static void refill_rx(struct net_device *dev) break; /* Better luck next round. */ skb->dev = dev; /* Mark as being used by this device. */ np->rx_dma[entry] = pci_map_single(np->pci_dev, - skb->tail, buflen, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE); + skb->data, buflen, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE); np->rx_ring[entry].addr = cpu_to_le32(np->rx_dma[entry]); } np->rx_ring[entry].cmd_status = cpu_to_le32(np->rx_buf_sz); @@ -2280,7 +2280,7 @@ static void netdev_rx(struct net_device *dev) buflen, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE); eth_copy_and_sum(skb, - np->rx_skbuff[entry]->tail, pkt_len, 0); + np->rx_skbuff[entry]->data, pkt_len, 0); skb_put(skb, pkt_len); pci_dma_sync_single_for_device(np->pci_dev, np->rx_dma[entry], -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2