netdev - RE: [2.6 patch] unexport softnet

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Message-ID: <BAE9DCEF64577A439B3A37F36F9B691C036142EF@orsmsx418.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 7 Nov 2007 07:01:39 -0800
From:	"Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@...el.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	<bunk@...nel.org>, <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Leech, Christopher" <christopher.leech@...el.com>,
	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [2.6 patch] unexport softnet_data

>From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net] 
>Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:41 PM
>
>From: "Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@...el.com>
>Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:38:55 -0700
>
>> There is no creation of a pinned_list yet in this path, so I 
>don't think
>> this would do us much good.
>
>The pinned list is created in the generic net/ipv4/tcp.c code, not in
>the address family specific code.
>
>So your comments do not apply as a reason for this patch to not go in.
>My patch has been in Linus's tree for weeks, and until you show me a
>real reason why the check shouldn't be there in the ipv6 path, it's
>staying.

Understood.

Thanks,
sln
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