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>
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@ -135,11 +135,11 @@ Resume
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On transmit:
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dev->header_ops != NULL
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dev_has_header(dev) == true
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mac_header -> ll header
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data -> ll header
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dev->header_ops == NULL (ll header is invisible to us)
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dev_has_header(dev) == false (ll header is invisible to us)
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mac_header -> data
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data -> data
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