Re: [RFC][PATCH 8/9] 3c59x driver conversion

[Daniel Phillips]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Update the driver to make use of the netdev_alloc_skb() API and the
> > NETIF_F_MEMALLOC feature.
>
> NETIF_F_MEMALLOC does not exist in the upstream tree...  nor should it, 
> IMO.

Elaborate please.  Do you think that all drivers should be updated to
fix the broken blockdev semantics, making NETIF_F_MEMALLOC redundant?
If so, I trust you will help audit for it?

> netdev_alloc_skb() is in the tree, and that's fine.
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