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/wan/hdlc_cisco.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/wan') diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c index c1b6896d700..87496843681 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c +++ b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static void cisco_keepalive_send(struct net_device *dev, u32 type, } skb_reserve(skb, 4); cisco_hard_header(skb, dev, CISCO_KEEPALIVE, NULL, NULL, 0); - data = (cisco_packet*)skb->tail; + data = (cisco_packet*)skb->data; data->type = htonl(type); data->par1 = htonl(par1); -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258