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

From: Thomas Chou <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:36:57 +0800

On 10/08/2009 11:11 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Thomas Chou a écrit :
> You should do :
>
> size -= 4; /* strip the CRC */
> skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, size + NET_IP_ALIGN);
> if (skb) {
> 	skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN);
> 	...
> }
>
>
> Please check other implementations...
>
> David, maybe we should add following helper :
>
> [PATCH] net: Add netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() helper

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the suggestion. I will follow your commit and send revised patch.

- Thomas