netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v4] can: Unify droping of invalid tx skbs and netdev stats

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Message-ID: <4B4C401F.9010703@hartkopp.net>
Date:	Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:25:51 +0100
From:	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
To:	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	SocketCAN Core Mailing List <socketcan-core@...ts.berlios.de>,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v4] can: Unify droping of invalid tx skbs
 and netdev stats

Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> Oliver,
> 
> Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>> To prevent the CAN drivers to operate on invalid socketbuffers the skbs are
>> now checked and silently dropped at the xmit-function consistently.
>>
>> Also the netdev stats are consistently using the CAN data length code (dlc)
>> for [rx|tx]_bytes now.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@...tkopp.net>
> 
> I just realized, mscan/mscan.c should then also use that helper function.
> 
> Wolfgang.

Will send a v5 ;-)

Oliver
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