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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a?
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:07:09 -0800 (PST)
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From: linux@horizon.com
Date: 8 Jan 2008 01:52:11 -0500

> @@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ config IP1000
>  	select MII
>  	---help---
>  	  This driver supports IP1000 gigabit Ethernet cards.
> +	  It works, but suffers from a memory leak.  Signifcant
> +	  use will consume unswappable kernel memory until the
> +	  machine runs out of memory and crashes.  Thus, this
> +	  driver cannot be considered usable at the the present time.

This is not how we handle and track bugs.

Such a patch is inappropriate, and I'd like to ask that you just be
patient until someone has a chance to try and figure out what the
problem is.  Or even better, you can try to track down the problem
yourself since you seem to have a specific interest in this problem.

Thanks.