Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() helper

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:30:37 -0700

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:34:20 +0200
Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]> wrote:

> David Miller a écrit :
> > From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:11:23 +0200
> > 
> >> [PATCH] net: Add netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() helper
> >>
> >> Instead of hardcoding NET_IP_ALIGN stuff in various network drivers, we can
> >> add a helper around netdev_alloc_skb()
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Applied to net-next-2.6
> 
> Thanks, here is the followup cleanup patch to use this new helper
> 
> [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: Use netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>

Name_is_getting_too_damn_long can we think of something beter.

Also, it isn't really ip alignment but compensating for the ethernet
header.
    alloc_ether_skb?