netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net: Add helper for padding short Ethernet frames

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Date:	Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:48:05 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net: Add helper for padding short Ethernet
 frames

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 08:17:26 -0800

> This patch series adds a pair of helpers to pad short Ethernet frames.  The
> general idea is to clean up a number of code paths that were all writing
> their own versions of the same or similar function.
> 
> An added advantage is that this will help to discourage introducing new
> bugs as in at least one case I found the skb->len had been updated, but the
> tail pointer update was overlooked.
> 
> v2: Added skb_put_padto for cases where length is not ETH_ZLEN
>     Updated intel drivers and emulex driver to use skb_put_padto
>     Updated eth_skb_pad to use skb_put_padto

Series applied, thanks Alex.
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