Messages in this thread |  | | From | Willem de Bruijn <> | Date | Sun, 9 Aug 2020 10:48:07 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH net] drivers/net/wan/lapbether: Added needed_tailroom |
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On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 7:53 PM Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com> wrote: > > The underlying Ethernet device may request necessary tailroom to be > allocated by setting needed_tailroom. This driver should also set > needed_tailroom to request the tailroom needed by the underlying > Ethernet device to be allocated. > > Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> > Cc: Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de> > Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com> > --- > drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c b/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c > index 1ea15f2123ed..cc297ea9c6ec 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c > +++ b/drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c > @@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ static int lapbeth_new_device(struct net_device *dev) > */ > ndev->needed_headroom = -1 + 3 + 2 + dev->hard_header_len > + dev->needed_headroom; > + ndev->needed_tailroom = dev->needed_tailroom;
Does this solve an actual observed bug?
In many ways lapbeth is similar to tunnel devices. This is not common.
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