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.TH "DEV_ALLOC_SKB" "9" "09 April 2004" "" ""

.SH NAME
dev_alloc_skb \- allocate an skbuff for sending
.SH SYNOPSIS
.sp
\fB
.sp
struct sk_buff * dev_alloc_skb  (unsigned int \fIlength\fB);
\fR
.SH "ARGUMENTS"
.TP
\fB\fIlength\fB\fR
length to allocate
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
Allocate a new &sk_buff and assign it a usage count of one. The
buffer has unspecified headroom built in. Users should allocate
the headroom they think they need without accounting for the
built in space. The built in space is used for optimisations.
.PP
NULL is returned in there is no free memory. Although this function
allocates memory it can be called from an interrupt.
.SH "ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT"
.PP
This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
.PP
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useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU General Public License for more details.
.PP
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
MA 02111-1307 USA
.PP
For more details see the file COPYING in the source
distribution of Linux.
.PP
If you have comments on the formatting of this manpage, then please contact
Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com).
.PP
This documentation was generated with kernel version 2.6.0.