netdev - question about drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1308131658460.2263@hadrien>
Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:01:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:	grant.likely@...aro.org, rob.herring@...xeda.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: question about drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c

I wonder why drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c uses dev_alloc_skb in the
function __lpc_handle_recv, rather than netdev_alloc_skb?  The difference
seems to be only that with dev_alloc_skb, the dev field of the skb is
initialized to NULL, rather than to a net_device, but this function seems
to have a net_device value available, so I wonder why it is not used?

thanks,
julia
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