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Re: Advice needed on IP-over-InfiniBand driver

To: David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Advice needed on IP-over-InfiniBand driver
From: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:48:53 -0700
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, openib-general@xxxxxxxxxx
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    David> I think it would be a mistake to use skb->dst as a flag for
    David> unicast or not. Even if it is correct in all cases you care
    David> about now (I don't know either way), it would be a hidden
    David> dependency with high potential to break something
    David> eventually.

That's kind of what I thought.  But since my packets have no L2 header
in them, I don't know what hard_start_xmit can look at other than
skb->dst.

I guess hard_header could put some info in skb->cb -- is cb available
for net device use between hard_header and hard_start_xmit, or does
someone else still own it?

Thanks,
  Roland

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