On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 05:03:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > A fast grep revealed a few buggy network drivers already (of course the
> > bug is going to affect only ISA drivers so it's not a showstopper).
>
> "It doesnt affect my computer so its not a problem" - humm
I never said anything like that, with "it's not a showstopper" I only
meant "it doesn't affect 99% of the hardware configurations out there".
> If somoe can add the needed isa dma handling to alloc_skb (or alloc_isa_skb)
alloc_isa_skb will avoid to slowdown alloc_skb so I prefer it compared
to hiding the logic inside alloc_skb.
> I'll go and fix all the drivers up.
Thanks. With the bugcheck patch I wanted to make _sure_ that somebody
will do that (which is very far from "... so it's not a problem" :).
Andrea
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