| To: | Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: 3c59x.c for 2.2.17 |
| From: | Andrey Savochkin <saw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:59:09 +0800 |
| Cc: | "netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx" <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Andreas Tobler <toa@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
| In-reply-to: | <E136BEN-0002B9-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from "Alan Cox" on Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 01:09:41PM |
| References: | <3955EB11.519DF76B@uow.edu.au> <E136BEN-0002B9-00@the-village.bc.nu> |
| Sender: | owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
Hello,
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 01:09:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> This is a mess in a lot of Don Becker skeleton base drivers. Its much cleaner
> if the last ring buffer slot is about to be used and the new alloc fails to
> simply recycle the buffer and throw the received packet away.
I do it this way in eepro100.
Andrey
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