On 25-04-2014 17:43, Eric Dumazet wrote:
If you want a debugging patch, this should happen way before TCP stack
or even IP stack.
Say you want to use this buggy driver on a router, this code path will
never bit hit.
You are right, of course, there are more effective ways to catch buggy
drivers.
But they will probably also be much more expensive.
This one is very cheap, being in a relatively cold path, especially
compared to the memcpy in the same path.
Svenning
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