netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2 -next] r8169: allocate with GFP

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Message-ID: <20100923212012.GA10925@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:20:12 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 -next] r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when able
 to sleep

Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com> :
> We have fedora bug report where driver fail to initialize after
> suspend/resume because of memory allocation errors:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629158
> 
> To fix use GFP_KERNEL allocation where possible. 

Feel free to add a Acked-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
as soon as it will have been explicitely reported to improve the
situation (it is not clear in the PR above).

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Ueimor
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