linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] usbnet: Get rid of spammy usbnet "kevent X may have been dropped"

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Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2017 22:36:02 +0200
From:   Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
To:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc:     groeck@...omium.org, grundler@...omium.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] usbnet: Get rid of spammy usbnet "kevent X may
 have been dropped"

Am Dienstag, den 19.09.2017, 09:15 -0700 schrieb Douglas Anderson:
> 
> ALSO NOTE: If somehow some of the types of work need to be repeated if
> usbnet_defer_kevent() is called multiple times then that should be
> quite easy to accomplish without dropping any work on the floor.  We
> can just keep an atomic count for that type of work and add a loop
> into usbnet_deferred_kevent().

Thanks for doing this, it is overdue.

	Regards
		Oliver

> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>