netdev - Re: linux-next: Tree for Aug 7

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Message-ID: <1375891974.8154.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Wed, 07 Aug 2013 18:12:54 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Cc:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	John Linville <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Aug 7

On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 17:59 +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:

> The idea behind this patch is that users setting the protocol to
> something else probably do know better and so should be left alone.

Regardless of that, I think that still the skb pointers would be changed
by this patch which would confuse the receiver of the SKB (device
driver), no? Has anyone verified that theory? :)

johannes

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