.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "SKB_PAD" "9" "09 April 2004" "" "" .SH NAME skb_pad \- zero pad the tail of an skb .SH SYNOPSIS .sp \fB .sp struct sk_buff * skb_pad (struct sk_buff * \fIskb\fB, int \fIpad\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIskb\fB\fR buffer to pad .TP \fB\fIpad\fB\fR space to pad .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Ensure that a buffer is followed by a padding area that is zero filled. Used by network drivers which may DMA or transfer data beyond the buffer end onto the wire. .PP May return NULL in out of memory cases. .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 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be 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.