Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/9] e1000 driver conversion

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:59:14 +0200

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 13:50 -0700, Auke Kok wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Update the driver to make use of the NETIF_F_MEMALLOC feature.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email-masked]>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Phillips <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |   11 +++++------
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Index: linux-2.6/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
> > +++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
> > @@ -4020,8 +4020,6 @@ e1000_alloc_rx_buffers(struct e1000_adap
> >  		 */
> >  		skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN);
> >  
> > -		skb->dev = netdev;
> > -
> >  		buffer_info->skb = skb;
> >  		buffer_info->length = adapter->rx_buffer_len;
> >  map_skb:
> > @@ -4135,8 +4136,6 @@ e1000_alloc_rx_buffers_ps(struct e1000_a
> >  		 */
> >  		skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN);
> >  
> > -		skb->dev = netdev;
> > -
> >  		buffer_info->skb = skb;
> >  		buffer_info->length = adapter->rx_ps_bsize0;
> >  		buffer_info->dma = pci_map_single(pdev, skb->data,
> > -
> 
> can we really delete these??

The new {,__}netdev_alloc_skb() will set it when the allocation
succeeds.