On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 12:27 +0800, xiaohui.xin@intel.com wrote:

From: Xin Xiaohui <redacted>

If the driver want to allocate external buffers,
then it can export it's capability, as the skb
buffer header length, the page length can be DMA, etc.
The external buffers owner may utilize this.

[...]

This information needs to be included in the comment above struct
net_device_ops, not just in the commit message.

Ben.

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