Re: [PATCH v11 03/17] Add a ndo_mp_port_prep pointer tonet_device_ops.

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Mon Sep 27 2010 - 09:42:41 EST


On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 12:27 +0800, xiaohui.xin@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> If the driver want to allocate external buffers,
> then it can export it's capability, as the skb
> buffer header length, the page length can be DMA, etc.
> The external buffers owner may utilize this.
[...]

This information needs to be included in the comment above struct
net_device_ops, not just in the commit message.

Ben.

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