netdev - Re: ~3 hours old git tree: Virtual device lo asks to queue packet!

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:13:37 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@...en.pl>
CC:	Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: ~3 hours old git tree: Virtual device lo asks to queue packet!

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday 19 of July 2007, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>   
>> OK I see what the problem is. The loopback device is statically
>> allocated, so it doesn't have any room for the subqueues reserved.
>>
>> The easiest fix would be to use egress_subqueue[1] in struct
>> net_device, but I think that may cause warnings with newer gccs
>> when using a constant index that is > 0. OTOH using constant
>> indices doesn't seem to make much sense for the subqueue array.
>>
>> Arkadiusz, does this patch fix the problem?
>>     
>
> It fixes the problem for me.
>   

Thanks for testing. Dave, please apply.



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