Re: proposed optimization for network drivers

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:59:33 -0700 (PDT)


From: don-linux@isis.cs3-inc.com (Don Cohen)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:37:01 -0700

For instance, why does every driver have to call
eth_type_trans? Could that be delayed for netif_rx ?

Silly example. Ethernet specific routines do not belong in
device generic netif_rx().

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