linux-kernel - Re: + oops-in-drivers-net-shaperc.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-Id: <20070126.191236.41877838.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:12:36 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org, deweerdt@...e.fr,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, frederik.deweerdt@...il.com,
	shemminger@...l.org
Subject: Re: + oops-in-drivers-net-shaperc.patch added to -mm tree

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:01:46 +1100

> In fact, the shaper device doesn't even seem to take a ref count of
> the device it has attached to.  So that device can go away at any time.
> What's more, there are drivers that can change hard_header at run-time
> (s390).

Indeed, it needs to do refcounting or something here, at a minimum,
this driver is so buggy and full of problems :-/

Thankfully it's marked OBSOLETE so we'll get rid of it eventually :)
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