netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/17] ATM fixes for pppoatm/br2684

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Date:	Sat, 01 Dec 2012 20:47:56 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dwmw2@...radead.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, chas@....nrl.navy.mil,
	krzysiek@...lesie.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] ATM fixes for pppoatm/br2684

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:35:47 +0000

> On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 11:44 -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> 
>> > drivers/atm/solos-pci.c: In function ‘solos_pci_init’:
>> > drivers/atm/solos-pci.c:1329:2: error: size of unnamed array is
>> negative
>> 
>> It's from adding the completion to the solos skb cb, you can't do
>> that.  It won't fit on 64-bit when all debugging kconfig options are
>> enabled.
> 
> Thanks for catching that. I've just posted a [v2] version of the
> offending patch, which no longer puts a completion into the skb cb.
> 
> I'd appreciate a slightly more clueful eye looking over the incremental
> patch (below) just to confirm that the new method is correct, but it
> certainly seems to work. This version is identical to the one I posted
> earlier, except that I use dev_kfree_skb() in the pclose() function
> instead of dev_kfree_skb_any(). We know this will be called from a
> suitable context, and it even uses GFP_KERNEL a few lines higher up.
> 
> If that's OK, please pull the resulting tree from
> 	git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/atm.git

Looks good, pulled, thanks David.