netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/7] : tehuti Fix possible causing oops of net_rx

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Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:07:29 +0900
From:	"Joonwoo Park" <joonwpark81@...il.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com, baum@...utinetworks.net, andy@...yhouse.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] : tehuti Fix possible causing oops of net_rx_action

2007/12/13, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:
> From: "Joonwoo Park" <joonwpark81@...il.com>
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:01:27 +0900
>
>
> Any time your trying to make a caller "happy" by adjusting
> a return value forcefully, it's a hack.
>
> And I stated this in another reply about this issue.
>
> Please do not fix the problem this way.
>
> The correct way to fix this is, if we did process a full
> "weight" or work, we should not netif_rx_complete() and
> we should not re-enable chip interrupts.
>
> Instead we should return the true "work_done" value and
> allow the caller to thus poll us one more time.
>

Thanks so much for your advice.
I agree, returning work_done itself exactly.
I will rework for these drivers.

Thanks.
Joonwoo
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