.\" This documentation was generated from the book titled "The Linux Kernel API", which is part of the Linux kernel source. .\" .\" This documentation comes with the following legal notice: .\" .\" 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. .\" .\" 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. .\" .\" 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 .\" .\" For more details see the file COPYING in the source .\" distribution of Linux. .\" .\" For comments on the formatting of this manpage, please contact Michael Still .\" 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_PADTO" "9" "13 April 2004" "" "" .SH NAME skb_padto \- pad an skbuff up to a minimal size .SH SYNOPSIS .sp \fB .sp struct sk_buff * skb_padto (struct sk_buff * \fIskb\fB, unsigned int \fIlen\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIskb\fB\fR buffer to pad .TP \fB\fIlen\fB\fR minimal length .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Pads up a buffer to ensure the trailing bytes exist and are blanked. If the buffer already contains sufficient data it is untouched. Returns the buffer, which may be a replacement for the original, or NULL for out of memory - in which case the original buffer is still freed. .SH "ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT" .PP This documentation was generated with kernel version 2.6.1.