netdev - Re: [PATCH 08/13] net: convert drivers to paged frag API.

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:12:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ian.campbell@...rix.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13] net: convert drivers to paged frag API.

From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:17:28 +0100

> -				put_dma(tx->index,eni_dev->dma,&j,(unsigned long)
> -				    skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page + skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page_offset,
> +				put_dma(tx->index,eni_dev->dma,&j,
> +				    (unsigned long)skb_frag_address(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i]),

This is not an equivalent transformation.

skb_frag_address() does a page_address() on the frag page, but that is
not what the code was doing here previously.

It's possible the code was buggy, but you can't do a fix like that
amidst what is supposed to be a semantically NOP transformation.
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