[PATCH net-next 5/6] doc, net: Remove instruction to set net_device::trans_start
From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2012-04-06 00:40:09
Subsystem:
documentation, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Commit 08baf561083bc27a953aa087dd8a664bb2b88e8e ('net:
txq_trans_update() helper') made it unnecessary for most drivers to
set net_device::trans_start (or netdev_queue::trans_start).
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
---
Documentation/networking/driver.txt | 7 ++-----
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/driver.txt b/Documentation/networking/driver.txt
index 83ce060..2128e41 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/driver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/driver.txt@@ -58,13 +58,10 @@ Transmit path guidelines: TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(dp) > 0) netif_wake_queue(dp->dev); -2) Do not forget to update netdev->trans_start to jiffies after - each new tx packet is given to the hardware. - -3) An ndo_start_xmit method must not modify the shared parts of a +2) An ndo_start_xmit method must not modify the shared parts of a cloned SKB. -4) Do not forget that once you return 0 from your ndo_start_xmit +3) Do not forget that once you return 0 from your ndo_start_xmit method, it is your driver's responsibility to free up the SKB and in some finite amount of time.
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1.7.7.6
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