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H A Dipv6.hdiff 6422398c2ab09268a55112f98cbf96bbf0184328 Sat Jan 31 09:40:15 CST 2015 Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com> ipv6: introduce ipv6_make_skb

This commit is very similar to
commit 1c32c5ad6fac8cee1a77449f5abf211e911ff830
Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue Mar 1 02:36:47 2011 +0000

inet: Add ip_make_skb and ip_finish_skb

It adds IPv6 version of the helpers ip6_make_skb and ip6_finish_skb.

The job of ip6_make_skb is to collect messages into an ipv6 packet
and poplulate ipv6 eader. The job of ip6_finish_skb is to transmit
the generated skb. Together they replicated the job of
ip6_push_pending_frames() while also provide the capability to be
called independently. This will be needed to add lockless UDP sendmsg
support.

Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/openbmc/linux/net/ipv6/
H A Dip6_output.cdiff 6422398c2ab09268a55112f98cbf96bbf0184328 Sat Jan 31 09:40:15 CST 2015 Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com> ipv6: introduce ipv6_make_skb

This commit is very similar to
commit 1c32c5ad6fac8cee1a77449f5abf211e911ff830
Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue Mar 1 02:36:47 2011 +0000

inet: Add ip_make_skb and ip_finish_skb

It adds IPv6 version of the helpers ip6_make_skb and ip6_finish_skb.

The job of ip6_make_skb is to collect messages into an ipv6 packet
and poplulate ipv6 eader. The job of ip6_finish_skb is to transmit
the generated skb. Together they replicated the job of
ip6_push_pending_frames() while also provide the capability to be
called independently. This will be needed to add lockless UDP sendmsg
support.

Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>