netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/10] [BRIDGE]: Unshare skb upon entry

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Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:50:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, hadi@...erus.ca,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/10] [BRIDGE]: Unshare skb upon entry

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:20:00 +0200

> Herbert Xu wrote:
> > [BRIDGE]: Unshare skb upon entry
> > 
> > Due to the special location of the bridging hook, it should never see a
> > shared packet anyway (certainly not with any in-kernel code).  So it
> > makes sense to unshare the skb there if necessary as that will greatly
> > simplify the code below it (in particular, netfilter).
> 
> 
> I guess we can remove the unsharing from br_netfilter.c now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>

Applied, thanks Patrick!
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