From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, mochel@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (0/9) free_netdev -- delay freeing of net_device structure till after last use
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:24:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030819132432.4c601c5f.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F42877B.9040407@pobox.com>
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:24:27 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> Also, my tendency is to apply patches 1-8, and not apply patch 9 just
> yet. Even though patch 9 is a fix, those specific areas of code, I'm
> betting, will change when those drivers are fixed WRT full dynamic
> allocation and refcounting.
>
> Comments?
I disagree about patch 9.
These drivers already dynamically allocate their netdev
structs, so they do not require any more fixing. I just
double checked each driver changes in patch 9 and to me
this is undoubtedly the case.
These are just pure bug fixes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-19 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-19 19:18 [PATCH] (0/9) free_netdev -- delay freeing of net_device structure till after last use Stephen Hemminger
2003-08-19 19:48 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-19 20:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 20:09 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-19 20:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-08-19 20:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 20:24 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-08-19 20:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 20:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
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