Re: [ATM] who 'owns' the skb created by drivers/atm?

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 01:00:35 EST

   From: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>
   Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:12:55 -0800
   
   Some people seem to be suggesting that we need to zero
   out ->cb before passing the SKB to netif_rx() but I don't see why
   that would be neccesary.

It is true, the whole input mechanism depends upon skb->cb[] being
clear on new skbs coming in via netif_rx().
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