From 689be43945e9ca7dd704522e55af1b8a73a994d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:25:31 -0700 Subject: [NET]: Remove gratuitous use of skb->tail in network drivers. Many drivers use skb->tail unnecessarily. In these situations, the code roughly looks like: dev = dev_alloc_skb(...); [optional] skb_reserve(skb, ...); ... skb->tail ... But even if the skb_reserve() happens, skb->data equals skb->tail. So it doesn't make any sense to use anything other than skb->data in these cases. Another case was the s2io.c driver directly mucking with the skb->data and skb->tail pointers. It really just wanted to do an skb_reserve(), so that's what the code was changed to do instead. Another reason I'm making this change as it allows some SKB cleanups I have planned simpler to merge. In those cleanups, skb->head, skb->tail, and skb->end pointers are removed, and replaced with skb->head_room and skb->tail_room integers. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Jeff Garzik --- drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c b/drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c index afb5cda9d8e..bb3558164a5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c +++ b/drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ int tulip_refill_rx(struct net_device *dev) if (skb == NULL) break; - mapping = pci_map_single(tp->pdev, skb->tail, PKT_BUF_SZ, + mapping = pci_map_single(tp->pdev, skb->data, PKT_BUF_SZ, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE); tp->rx_buffers[entry].mapping = mapping; @@ -199,12 +199,12 @@ int tulip_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget) tp->rx_buffers[entry].mapping, pkt_len, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE); #if ! defined(__alpha__) - eth_copy_and_sum(skb, tp->rx_buffers[entry].skb->tail, + eth_copy_and_sum(skb, tp->rx_buffers[entry].skb->data, pkt_len, 0); skb_put(skb, pkt_len); #else memcpy(skb_put(skb, pkt_len), - tp->rx_buffers[entry].skb->tail, + tp->rx_buffers[entry].skb->data, pkt_len); #endif pci_dma_sync_single_for_device(tp->pdev, @@ -423,12 +423,12 @@ static int tulip_rx(struct net_device *dev) tp->rx_buffers[entry].mapping, pkt_len, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE); #if ! defined(__alpha__) - eth_copy_and_sum(skb, tp->rx_buffers[entry].skb->tail, + eth_copy_and_sum(skb, tp->rx_buffers[entry].skb->data, pkt_len, 0); skb_put(skb, pkt_len); #else memcpy(skb_put(skb, pkt_len), - tp->rx_buffers[entry].skb->tail, + tp->rx_buffers[entry].skb->data, pkt_len); #endif pci_dma_sync_single_for_device(tp->pdev, -- cgit v1.2.3