return skb;
}
-/**
- * dev_alloc_skb - allocate an skbuff for receiving
- * @length: length to allocate
- *
- * Allocate a new &sk_buff and assign it a usage count of one. The
- * buffer has unspecified headroom built in. Users should allocate
- * the headroom they think they need without accounting for the
- * built in space. The built in space is used for optimisations.
- *
- * %NULL is returned if there is no free memory. Although this function
- * allocates memory it can be called from an interrupt.
- */
-static inline struct sk_buff *dev_alloc_skb(unsigned int length)
-{
- return __dev_alloc_skb(length, GFP_ATOMIC);
-}
+extern struct sk_buff *dev_alloc_skb(unsigned int length);
extern struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask);
return skb;
}
+/**
+ * dev_alloc_skb - allocate an skbuff for receiving
+ * @length: length to allocate
+ *
+ * Allocate a new &sk_buff and assign it a usage count of one. The
+ * buffer has unspecified headroom built in. Users should allocate
+ * the headroom they think they need without accounting for the
+ * built in space. The built in space is used for optimisations.
+ *
+ * %NULL is returned if there is no free memory. Although this function
+ * allocates memory it can be called from an interrupt.
+ */
+struct sk_buff *dev_alloc_skb(unsigned int length)
+{
+ return __dev_alloc_skb(length, GFP_ATOMIC);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_alloc_skb);
+
static void skb_drop_list(struct sk_buff **listp)
{
struct sk_buff *list = *listp;