Documentation: add networking driver's mapping error handling to DMA-API-HOWTO

Adds the concrete DMA mapping error handling for Networking drivers on the
transmit path.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
index 2e435adfbd6bbedfbe913c38e1c51a9c2db036e9..93d90870791cea8ae9082186fe4a1d9813ca71e0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
@@ -740,6 +740,11 @@ failure can be determined by:
                 */
        }
 
+Networking drivers must call dev_kfree_skb to free the socket buffer
+and return NETDEV_TX_OK if the DMA mapping fails on the transmit hook
+(ndo_start_xmit). This means that the socket buffer is just dropped in
+the failure case.
+
                           Closing
 
 This document, and the API itself, would not be in its current