Re: [PATCH v4] net: add Faraday FTMAC100 10/100 Ethernet driver

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Jan 31 2011 - 23:35:25 EST


From: Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert.chuang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 11:56:16 +0800

> If I simply allocate a page for each rx ring entry, I still need to allocate
> an skb and copy at least packet header in first page to skb->data. Then
> add the page of rest of payload to skb by skb_fill_page_desc().

You should attach the pages, the use __pskb_pull_tail() to bring in the
headers to the linear skb->data area.

See drivers/net/niu.c:niu_process_rx_pkt().
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