[NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation.

Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and
fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is
an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space
was available,(ie -N bytes).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Stephen Hemminger 2007-10-09 01:36:32 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 4c94f8c0c9
commit 0c4e85813d
19 changed files with 63 additions and 70 deletions

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@ -800,6 +800,15 @@ extern int dev_restart(struct net_device *dev);
extern int netpoll_trap(void);
#endif
static inline int dev_hard_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
unsigned short type,
void *daddr, void *saddr, unsigned len)
{
if (!dev->hard_header)
return 0;
return dev->hard_header(skb, dev, type, daddr, saddr, len);
}
typedef int gifconf_func_t(struct net_device * dev, char __user * bufptr, int len);
extern int register_gifconf(unsigned int family, gifconf_func_t * gifconf);
static inline int unregister_gifconf(unsigned int family)