netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/3] net-timestamp: Make the clone operation stand-alone from phy timestamping

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Date:	Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:33:49 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	richardcochran@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net, willemb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/3] net-timestamp: Make the clone operation
 stand-alone from phy timestamping

>> I may not be following the flow correctly, and may be noticing only
>> because I just did two "floor-sweeping" patches to shift be2net and
>> mlx4_en to "consume" but would it be better if these kfree_skb calls
>> were a "consume" variety?
>>
>> rick jones
>
> kfree_skb is probably the correct approach.  In this case it represents
> a buffer that has to be freed due to a Tx timestamp request timeout so
> it would be an event that we would want to trace as an error event.

Thanks.

rick
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