提交 f671be04 编写于 作者: F FUJITA Tomonori 提交者: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: add networking driver's mapping error handling to DMA-API-HOWTO

Adds the concrete DMA mapping error handling for Networking drivers on the
transmit path.
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
上级 5fd75a78
......@@ -740,6 +740,11 @@ failure can be determined by:
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}
Networking drivers must call dev_kfree_skb to free the socket buffer
and return NETDEV_TX_OK if the DMA mapping fails on the transmit hook
(ndo_start_xmit). This means that the socket buffer is just dropped in
the failure case.
Closing
This document, and the API itself, would not be in its current
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