Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:34:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:34:47 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:39358 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:34:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:33:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20021017.133314.60542842.davem@redhat.com> To: adam@yggdrasil.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.43: "fix old protocol handler pppoe_rcv+0x0/0x124 [pppoe]" From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <200210172010.NAA01600@adam.yggdrasil.com> References: <200210172010.NAA01600@adam.yggdrasil.com> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 635 Lines: 16 From: "Adam J. Richter" Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:10:56 -0700 I'm puzzling out exactly change this message is requesting, Packet receive must be aware of shared skb's (it must make a copy if it wants to modify packet contents) and it must be fully SMP threaded. Then ptype->data is changed to some non-NULL value to indicate that it is a "new" protocol. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/