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

From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:06:15 +0200

Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> Name_is_getting_too_damn_long can we think of something beter.

yes probably

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

Dont know, but NET_IP_ALIGN was about making sure skb->data + sizeof(ethernet header)
is 4 bytes aligned, not for handling ethernet header itself in our stack (we only need
2 bytes alignement for this ethernet header), but IP header.