netdev - Re: [PATCH] sky2: Fix crash on receiving VLAN frames

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Date:	Fri, 3 May 2013 07:59:16 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Kirill Smelkov <kirr@....spb.ru>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Mirko Lindner <mlindner@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: Fix crash on receiving VLAN frames

On Fri,  3 May 2013 18:22:04 +0400
Kirill Smelkov <kirr@....spb.ru> wrote:

> Stephen, I wonder, why copy_skb_header() is not used in
> sky2.c::receive_copy() ? Problems, where receive_copy was updated field
> by field showed several times already, e.g.

The drive pre-dates copy_skb_header.
Why not convert driver to use it and avoid this and related problems?
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