netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] wan: dlci/sdla transmit return dehacking

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Date:	Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:57:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	khc@...waw.pl, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] wan: dlci/sdla transmit return dehacking

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:33:46 -0700

> This is a brute force removal of the wierd slave interface done for DLCI -> SDLA
> transmit. Before it was using non-standard return values and freeing skb in caller.
> This changes it to using normal return values, and freeing in the callee.
> Luckly only one driver pair was doing this. Not tested on real hardware,
> in fact I wonder if this driver pair is even being used by any users.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Irregardless of what we should do with the SDLA driver, this patch
should go in while that code is still in the tree.

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks.
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