Re: Bonding driver appears to call a sleeping function from an invalid context in 2.6.17-rc1

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Apr 17 2006 - 22:30:13 EST


Maurice Volaski <mvolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At startup, the bonding driver appears to call a sleeping function
> from an invalid context in 2.6.17-rc1.

Known problem. Bonding needs to make sure that this stuff gets moved
to a sleepable context since the underlying hardware may require
sleeping to perform the task of setting the MAC address.

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