netdev - Re: [PATCH] usbnet: allow rx_process() to ignore packets

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Date:	Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:46:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>
Cc:	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: allow rx_process() to ignore packets

--- On Tue, 9/7/10, Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org> wrote:
> 
> It's not a garbage, just a packet that is not yet
> complete.

Sorry, I guess I was being dense.

I thought packets were by definition complete... :)

I think you're saying this is one of N fragments
which the minidriver will be re-assembling into
a bigger packet, before somehow passing it up
the stack...

I attach my doc update patch.  (should be the
same as what I sent before.  Consider my apology
for using an attachment as repeated here; my email
setup remains partly broken).  Can you send
a version of your defrag-enabling patch which
applies on top of it, and documents your new
calling convention (with a third return case
for rx_process() too?
Download attachment "rxfix" of type "application/octet-stream" (2492 bytes)