The skge driver was using dev_alloc_skb which reserves space for the 
Ethernet header. This unnecessary and it should just use alloc_skb,
also by using GFP_KERNEL during startup it won't run into problems when
a user asks for a huge ring size or mtu and potentially drains the
reserved atomic pool.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

--- skge-2.6.orig/drivers/net/skge.c
+++ skge-2.6/drivers/net/skge.c
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ static int skge_rx_fill(struct skge_port
        do {
                struct sk_buff *skb;
 
-               skb = dev_alloc_skb(skge->rx_buf_size + NET_IP_ALIGN);
+               skb = alloc_skb(skge->rx_buf_size + NET_IP_ALIGN, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!skb)
                        return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -2592,7 +2592,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *skge_rx_ge
                goto error;
 
        if (len < RX_COPY_THRESHOLD) {
-               skb = dev_alloc_skb(len + 2);
+               skb = alloc_skb(len + 2, GFP_ATOMIC);
                if (!skb)
                        goto resubmit;
 
@@ -2607,7 +2607,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *skge_rx_ge
                skge_rx_reuse(e, skge->rx_buf_size);
        } else {
                struct sk_buff *nskb;
-               nskb = dev_alloc_skb(skge->rx_buf_size + NET_IP_ALIGN);
+               nskb = alloc_skb(skge->rx_buf_size + NET_IP_ALIGN, GFP_ATOMIC);
                if (!nskb)
                        goto resubmit;
 

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