net: add a hardware buffer management helper API

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This basic implementation allows to share code between driver using
hardware buffer management. As the code is hardware agnostic, there is
few helpers, most of the optimization brought by the an HW BM has to be
done at driver level.

Tested-by: Sebastian Careba <nitroshift@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Gregory CLEMENT 2016-03-14 09:39:04 +01:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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include/net/hwbm.h

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net/core/hwbm.c

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