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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>2007-10-09 01:36:32 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-10-10 16:52:50 -0700
commit0c4e85813d0a94eeb8bf813397a4907bdd7bb610 (patch)
tree53ee948abc930bb1c5cd270c490f87fda5eb45b3 /net/ethernet
parent[NET]: Remove no longer relevant comment in loopback driver. (diff)
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[NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation.
Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space was available,(ie -N bytes). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ethernet')
-rw-r--r--net/ethernet/pe2.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ethernet/pe2.c b/net/ethernet/pe2.c
index 9d57b4fb6440..d60e15d9365e 100644
--- a/net/ethernet/pe2.c
+++ b/net/ethernet/pe2.c
@@ -12,9 +12,7 @@ static int pEII_request(struct datalink_proto *dl,
struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IPX);
- if (dev->hard_header)
- dev->hard_header(skb, dev, ETH_P_IPX,
- dest_node, NULL, skb->len);
+ dev_hard_header(skb, dev, ETH_P_IPX, dest_node, NULL, skb->len);
return dev_queue_xmit(skb);
}