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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-09 01:36:32 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-10 16:52:50 -0700 |
| commit | 0c4e85813d0a94eeb8bf813397a4907bdd7bb610 (patch) | |
| tree | 53ee948abc930bb1c5cd270c490f87fda5eb45b3 /include/linux/netdevice.h | |
| parent | 4c94f8c0c9a82fad84bc5df453aff755cfed70b7 (diff) | |
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[NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation.
Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and
fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is
an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space
was available,(ie -N bytes).
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 71cf409..b33d084 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -800,6 +800,15 @@ extern int dev_restart(struct net_device *dev); extern int netpoll_trap(void); #endif +static inline int dev_hard_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, + unsigned short type, + void *daddr, void *saddr, unsigned len) +{ + if (!dev->hard_header) + return 0; + return dev->hard_header(skb, dev, type, daddr, saddr, len); +} + typedef int gifconf_func_t(struct net_device * dev, char __user * bufptr, int len); extern int register_gifconf(unsigned int family, gifconf_func_t * gifconf); static inline int unregister_gifconf(unsigned int family) |
