linux-kernel - Re: trying to track a change to drivers/isdn/usb-gigaset.c

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Date:	Mon, 07 May 2007 18:23:23 +0200
From:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, acme@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: trying to track a change to drivers/isdn/usb-gigaset.c

David Miller schrieb:
> [ netdev@...r.kernel.org is the place to discuss kernel networking
>   issues, thanks ]

OIC. My bad. I didn't make the connection from "skb" to "networking". Sorry.

> It was a change done so that we could hide the skb data buffering
> details to the point where we could change the protocol header
> pointers into 32-bit offsets which saves 4 bytes per such pointer per
> protocol header stored in struct sk_buff.

Thanks for the explanation.

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