netdev - Re: [PATCH] TTY: ircomm, use GFP_KERNEL in ircomm

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Date:	Fri, 5 Apr 2013 14:15:00 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TTY: ircomm, use GFP_KERNEL in ircomm_open()

On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 11:02:07PM +0200, Mathias Krause wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I'm unsure if you or Dave should take that one as it's for one a TTY
> patch but also living under net/. So I'm uncertain and let you decide!

If Dave want to take it, it's fine with me:

> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] TTY: ircomm, use GFP_KERNEL in ircomm_open()
> 
> We're clearly running in non-atomic context as our only call site is
> able to call wait_event_interruptible(). So we're safe to use GFP_KERNEL
> here instead of GFP_ATOMIC.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

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