netdev - [PATCH] Fix kernel-doc for skb

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Date:	Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:28:45 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH] Fix kernel-doc for skb_segment

The kernel-doc comment for skb_segment is clearly wrong.  This states what
it actually does.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 0d0fd28..6087013 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -2131,8 +2131,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(skb_pull_rcsum);
  *	@features: features for the output path (see dev->features)
  *
  *	This function performs segmentation on the given skb.  It returns
- *	the segment at the given position.  It returns NULL if there are
- *	no more segments to generate, or when an error is encountered.
+ *	a pointer to the first in a list of new skbs for the segments.
+ *	In case of error it returns ERR_PTR(err).
  */
 struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *skb, int features)
 {

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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