From 689be43945e9ca7dd704522e55af1b8a73a994d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:25:31 -0700 Subject: [NET]: Remove gratuitous use of skb->tail in network drivers. Many drivers use skb->tail unnecessarily. In these situations, the code roughly looks like: dev = dev_alloc_skb(...); [optional] skb_reserve(skb, ...); ... skb->tail ... But even if the skb_reserve() happens, skb->data equals skb->tail. So it doesn't make any sense to use anything other than skb->data in these cases. Another case was the s2io.c driver directly mucking with the skb->data and skb->tail pointers. It really just wanted to do an skb_reserve(), so that's what the code was changed to do instead. Another reason I'm making this change as it allows some SKB cleanups I have planned simpler to merge. In those cleanups, skb->head, skb->tail, and skb->end pointers are removed, and replaced with skb->head_room and skb->tail_room integers. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Jeff Garzik --- drivers/net/pcnet32.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/pcnet32.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c b/drivers/net/pcnet32.c index 3213f3e5048..113b6809921 100644 --- a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c +++ b/drivers/net/pcnet32.c @@ -1602,7 +1602,7 @@ pcnet32_init_ring(struct net_device *dev) rmb(); if (lp->rx_dma_addr[i] == 0) - lp->rx_dma_addr[i] = pci_map_single(lp->pci_dev, rx_skbuff->tail, + lp->rx_dma_addr[i] = pci_map_single(lp->pci_dev, rx_skbuff->data, PKT_BUF_SZ-2, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE); lp->rx_ring[i].base = (u32)le32_to_cpu(lp->rx_dma_addr[i]); lp->rx_ring[i].buf_length = le16_to_cpu(2-PKT_BUF_SZ); @@ -1983,7 +1983,7 @@ pcnet32_rx(struct net_device *dev) lp->rx_skbuff[entry] = newskb; newskb->dev = dev; lp->rx_dma_addr[entry] = - pci_map_single(lp->pci_dev, newskb->tail, + pci_map_single(lp->pci_dev, newskb->data, PKT_BUF_SZ-2, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE); lp->rx_ring[entry].base = le32_to_cpu(lp->rx_dma_addr[entry]); rx_in_place = 1; @@ -2020,7 +2020,7 @@ pcnet32_rx(struct net_device *dev) PKT_BUF_SZ-2, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE); eth_copy_and_sum(skb, - (unsigned char *)(lp->rx_skbuff[entry]->tail), + (unsigned char *)(lp->rx_skbuff[entry]->data), pkt_len,0); pci_dma_sync_single_for_device(lp->pci_dev, lp->rx_dma_addr[entry], -- cgit v1.2.3