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/*
* INET An implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite for the LINUX
* operating system. INET is implemented using the BSD Socket
* interface as the means of communication with the user level.
*
* Pseudo-driver for the loopback interface.
*
* Version: @(#)loopback.c 1.0.4b 08/16/93
*
* Authors: Ross Biro
* Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG>
* Donald Becker, <becker@scyld.com>
*
* Alan Cox : Fixed oddments for NET3.014
* Alan Cox : Rejig for NET3.029 snap #3
* Alan Cox : Fixed NET3.029 bugs and sped up
* Larry McVoy : Tiny tweak to double performance
* Alan Cox : Backed out LMV's tweak - the linux mm
* can't take it...
* Michael Griffith: Don't bother computing the checksums
* on packets received on the loopback
* interface.
* Alexey Kuznetsov: Potential hang under some extreme
* cases removed.
*
* This program 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.
*/
/* For the statistics structure. */
/* For ARPHRD_ETHER */
/* The higher levels take care of making this non-reentrant (it's
* called with bh's disabled).