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Hello,

On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 01:09:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> This is a mess in a lot of Don Becker skeleton base drivers. Its much cleaner 
> if the last ring buffer slot is about to be used and the new alloc fails to 
> simply recycle the buffer and throw the received packet away.

I do it this way in eepro100.

	Andrey