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

[Jeff Garzik]

David Miller wrote:
> From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:51:20 -0700
>
> > 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?
>
> I think he's saying that he doesn't think your code is yet a
> reasonable way to solve the problem, and therefore doesn't belong
> upstream.

Pretty much.  It is completely non-sensical to add NETIF_F_MEMALLOC, 
when it should be blindingly obvious that every net driver will be 
allocating memory, and every net driver could potentially be used with 
NBD and similar situations.

	Jeff


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