netdev - Re: [RFC v2] mac80211: assign needed

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Message-Id: <20080505.170805.127854312.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 05 May 2008 17:08:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	tomasw@...il.com, linville@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] mac80211: assign needed_headroom/tailroom for netdevs

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 02:01:16 +0200

> Right. I just checked, and realised I remembered wrongly, wpa_supplicant
> actually binds the socket to the ethertype it wants so
> dev_queue_xmit_nit() shouldn't be called. I'll have to check why I got
> so many cloned packets, best see if it still happens with the
> header_cloned() change.

skb_cloned() is fine, that's what every TCP packet is.

skb_header_cloned() is what we expect to be false

I look forward to the results of your investigation :-)
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