* Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wrote:
> > (Ieee1394 core's usage of the skb_* API is entirely unrelated to
> > networking; even if eth1394 was used.)
>
> PS:
> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to migrate ieee1394 core away from
> skb_*. I didn't look thoroughly at it yet but the benefit of using
> this API appears quite low to me.
yeah, it seems to be the wrong abstraction to use. It's also more
expensive than necessary: e.g. skb-heads have a qlen field that is
maintained in every list op - but the ieee1394 code does not make use of
the queue-length information. Using list.h plus a spinlock should do the
trick?
Ingo
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