From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] correct dev_alloc_skb kerneldoc
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:55:27 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:52:55 -0700

> What is the point of dev_alloc_skb anyway? all it does is add header space.

In stone-age times it actually had specific semantics, but yes today
it is just a synonym.

It's going to be hard to get rid of it, every single network driver
out there references it.