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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:03:47 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [NET]: Get rid of alloc_skb code duplication On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:57:46PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Hi Dave: > > [NET]: Get rid of alloc_skb code duplication > > The skb initialisation code is shared between alloc_skb and > alloc_skb_from_cache. Now I don't know what actually uses > the latter so perhaps we could simply get rid of it. It was put in for Xen, but if you as the resident beat the crap out of Xen networking guru don't know about it we should probably just kill it. Especially as we usually kill dead code pretty fast. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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