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

Jeff Garzik
2006-08-09T06:30:03Z

David Miller wrote:
> From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@google.com>
> 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