Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:30:03 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 8/9] 3c59x driver conversion |
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David Miller wrote: > From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@google.com> > Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:51:20 -0700 > >> Elaborate please. Do you think that all drivers should be updated to >> fix the broken blockdev semantics, making NETIF_F_MEMALLOC redundant? >> If so, I trust you will help audit for it? > > I think he's saying that he doesn't think your code is yet a > reasonable way to solve the problem, and therefore doesn't belong > upstream.
Pretty much. It is completely non-sensical to add NETIF_F_MEMALLOC, when it should be blindingly obvious that every net driver will be allocating memory, and every net driver could potentially be used with NBD and similar situations.
Jeff
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