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authorDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>2008-07-23 01:09:06 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-07-23 01:09:06 +0400
commitd29f749e252bcdbfe7a75a58f0ee92da16f127c0 (patch)
tree701734c2beed075d603d28cc4a343ecf1d4e475b /net
parentb32d13102d39ed411d152a7ffcc5f66d5b3b1b49 (diff)
downloadlinux-d29f749e252bcdbfe7a75a58f0ee92da16f127c0.tar.xz
net: Fix build failure with 'make mandocs'.
The function header comments have to go with the functions they are documenting, or things go horribly wrong when we try to process them with the docbook tools. Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1006): No description found for parameter 'dev_queue' Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1033): No description found for parameter 'dev_queue' Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1067): No description found for parameter 'dev_queue' Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1093): No description found for parameter 'dev_queue' Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1474): No description found for parameter 'txq' Error(net/core/dev.c:1674): cannot understand prototype: 'u32 simple_tx_hashrnd; ' Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c51
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index ad5598d2bb37..65eea83613ef 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1645,32 +1645,6 @@ out_kfree_skb:
return 0;
}
-/**
- * dev_queue_xmit - transmit a buffer
- * @skb: buffer to transmit
- *
- * Queue a buffer for transmission to a network device. The caller must
- * have set the device and priority and built the buffer before calling
- * this function. The function can be called from an interrupt.
- *
- * A negative errno code is returned on a failure. A success does not
- * guarantee the frame will be transmitted as it may be dropped due
- * to congestion or traffic shaping.
- *
- * -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * I notice this method can also return errors from the queue disciplines,
- * including NET_XMIT_DROP, which is a positive value. So, errors can also
- * be positive.
- *
- * Regardless of the return value, the skb is consumed, so it is currently
- * difficult to retry a send to this method. (You can bump the ref count
- * before sending to hold a reference for retry if you are careful.)
- *
- * When calling this method, interrupts MUST be enabled. This is because
- * the BH enable code must have IRQs enabled so that it will not deadlock.
- * --BLG
- */
-
static u32 simple_tx_hashrnd;
static int simple_tx_hashrnd_initialized = 0;
@@ -1738,6 +1712,31 @@ static struct netdev_queue *dev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev,
return netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, queue_index);
}
+/**
+ * dev_queue_xmit - transmit a buffer
+ * @skb: buffer to transmit
+ *
+ * Queue a buffer for transmission to a network device. The caller must
+ * have set the device and priority and built the buffer before calling
+ * this function. The function can be called from an interrupt.
+ *
+ * A negative errno code is returned on a failure. A success does not
+ * guarantee the frame will be transmitted as it may be dropped due
+ * to congestion or traffic shaping.
+ *
+ * -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * I notice this method can also return errors from the queue disciplines,
+ * including NET_XMIT_DROP, which is a positive value. So, errors can also
+ * be positive.
+ *
+ * Regardless of the return value, the skb is consumed, so it is currently
+ * difficult to retry a send to this method. (You can bump the ref count
+ * before sending to hold a reference for retry if you are careful.)
+ *
+ * When calling this method, interrupts MUST be enabled. This is because
+ * the BH enable code must have IRQs enabled so that it will not deadlock.
+ * --BLG
+ */
int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;