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

Daniel Phillips
2006-08-09T05:51:20Z

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.