[NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation.
Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and
fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is
an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space
was available,(ie -N bytes).
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
index af5d5b3..c5c107a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
@@ -757,8 +757,8 @@
/* Chain packet down the line... */
skb->dev = dev;
skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IP);
- if ((dev->hard_header &&
- dev->hard_header(skb, dev, ntohs(skb->protocol), dev->broadcast, dev->dev_addr, skb->len) < 0) ||
+ if (dev_hard_header(skb, dev, ntohs(skb->protocol),
+ dev->broadcast, dev->dev_addr, skb->len) < 0 ||
dev_queue_xmit(skb) < 0)
printk("E");
}