linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/wan/lapbether: Added needed

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Date:   Thu, 6 Aug 2020 04:21:53 -0700
From:   Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>
To:     Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux X25 <linux-x25@...r.kernel.org>,
        Martin Schiller <ms@....tdt.de>,
        Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/wan/lapbether: Added needed_headroom and a
 skb->len check

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 12:47 AM Willem de Bruijn
<willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
>
> The in-band signal byte is required, but stripped by lapbeth_xmit.
> Subsequent code will prefix additional headers, including an Ethernet
> link layer. The extra space needs to be reserved, but not pulled in
> packet_snd with skb_reserve, so has to use needed_headroom instead of
> hard_header_len.

Thank you, Willem!