From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [v5 Patch 1/3] netpoll: add generic support for bridge and bonding devices Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 13:35:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100527.133559.193700421.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100505081514.5157.83783.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20100527180545.GA2345@sysclose.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: amwang@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, gospo@redhat.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, jmoyer@redhat.com, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, fubar@us.ibm.com To: fbl@sysclose.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:56983 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758722Ab0E0Ufu (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 16:35:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100527180545.GA2345@sysclose.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Flavio Leitner Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:05:45 -0300 > I did the following patch to discard the packet if it was IN_NETPOLL > and the read_lock() fails, so I could go ahead testing it: This is disgusting, let's just disallow console output from such locations. Defer them to a workqueue if their output is so critical.