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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:03:09 +0200

> The root problem is that the driver shouldn't use streaming allocations
> for its descriptors (they are written from both sides simultaneously).
> Only skb->data can be streaming.

skb->data is where e100 puts it's descriptors. :-)

But you know that.