Subject: Re: require packet path at device layer

From: Neil Horman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:05:51 -0500

linux lover wrote:
> Hello,
>     Can anybody provide me how packet control is transferred from
> netif_rx to netif_receive_skb function.
> regards,
> linux.lover
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Believe its done directly in netif_rx, which calls:
netif_rx_schedule(&queue->blog_dev)
The poll routine for blog_dev which gets set in net_dev_init is called 
process_backlog, which takes packets queued from netif_rx and calls 
netif_receive_skb with them

HTH
Neil

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