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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: shane@hathawaymix.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000 rx buffer allocation
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:35:38 -0600 (MDT)
shane@hathawaymix.org wrote:

> Independently of my patch, I'm a little concerned about what will happen 
> if the driver runs out of rx buffers.  Ideally, it will just drop packets, 
> but I wonder if the code will panic instead.