netdev - Re: TX pre-headers...

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Message-Id: <20090210.001533.255492103.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:15:33 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	khc@...waw.pl
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TX pre-headers...

From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:39:48 +0100

> OTOH I wonder if these changes make the dev->hard_header_len no longer
> needed.

Not really, this value tells the kernel how large the cached
link-level headers are that get copied directly under the
network header.

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