net/packet: Improve the comment about LL header visibility criteria
authorXie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
Fri, 5 Feb 2021 22:41:24 +0000 (14:41 -0800)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Sat, 6 Feb 2021 22:59:28 +0000 (14:59 -0800)
commit21c85974aab7211619d39364990427af543c88ac
tree849d996f56e276eac84aa7ae790313ce97027650
parent163a180213afb2d0ec16cd71d0e0669cb940cd08
net/packet: Improve the comment about LL header visibility criteria

The "dev_has_header" function, recently added in
commit d549699048b4 ("net/packet: fix packet receive on L3 devices
without visible hard header"),
is more accurate as criteria for determining whether a device exposes
the LL header to upper layers, because in addition to dev->header_ops,
it also checks for dev->header_ops->create.

When transmitting an skb on a device, dev_hard_header can be called to
generate an LL header. dev_hard_header will only generate a header if
dev->header_ops->create is present.

Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210205224124.21345-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net/packet/af_packet.c