netdev - Re: RFC: on [ab]use of skb->cb by VLAN code

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:33:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
Cc:	greearb@...delatech.com, kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	mcarlson@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: RFC: on [ab]use of skb->cb by VLAN code

From: jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:59:16 -0400

> This seems like a bad use since there can be a lot of things between 
> a real hardware driver and something that sets a vlan tag (qdiscs come
> to mind).

I understand the concern, but how much qdisc stuff can possibly
happen between those two ->hard_start_xmit() calls and do we
want to support that in any way anyways?

The only alternative I see is to add more things to struct sk_buff
and that's usually very unpopular :-)
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