netdev - Re: [ofa-general] NetEffect, iw

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Message-ID: <20090421125008.GA18493@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:50:08 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
Cc:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, aluno3@...zta.onet.pl,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] NetEffect, iw_nes and kernel warning

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:49:19PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> I don't think the issue here is the leak.  Calling skb_linearize is
> simply illegal if you support netpoll because netpoll will call the
> xmit routine with IRQs off.

On the other hand if netpoll never generates a packet that requires
linearisation, maybe it will work :)
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