linux-kernel - Re: [v5 Patch 1/3] netpoll: add generic support for bridge and bonding devices

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Date:	Thu, 27 May 2010 13:35:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fbl@...close.org
Cc:	amwang@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mpm@...enic.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	gospo@...hat.com, nhorman@...driver.com, jmoyer@...hat.com,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, fubar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [v5 Patch 1/3] netpoll: add generic support for bridge and
 bonding devices

From: Flavio Leitner <fbl@...close.org>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:05:45 -0300

> I did the following patch to discard the packet if it was IN_NETPOLL
> and the read_lock() fails, so I could go ahead testing it:

This is disgusting, let's just disallow console output from such
locations.  Defer them to a workqueue if their output is so critical.
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