linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 8/9] 3c59x driver conversion

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Message-ID: <44D980EB.5010608@garzik.org>
Date:	Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:30:03 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	phillips@...gle.com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 8/9] 3c59x driver conversion

David Miller wrote:
> From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@...gle.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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