netdev - Re: Kernel problem

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Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:19:48 +0000
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, ash@...sky.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel problem

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:06:31PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:10:37AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > 
> > netpoll supports receiving packets and has a trap handler to eat them
> > to avoid packets it is interested in going into the real stack.
> > (netpoll_receive_skb, netpoll_rx_skb, etc.)
> 
> OK after much head scratching and staring, it turns out that
> this is caused by the VLAN path not doing the netpoll check
> which would normally drop the packets when a printk is active.

Yes, nice catch/scratch!

Cheers,
Jarek P.
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