linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] lguest: trivial guest network driver

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Message-ID: <20070214135710.GA2894@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:57:10 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	virtualization <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
	jgarzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] lguest: trivial guest network driver

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:47:55PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> It's also used to generate dma structs for outgoing packets.  In that
> case, skb_headlen() == 0:

I see, in that case you're guaranteed to have no fragments.
Still it feels a bit weird to have a length field that only
applies to the header part.

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