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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt index 2e435adfbd6b..93d90870791c 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt @@ -740,6 +740,11 @@ failure can be determined by: */ } +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 |