From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au
Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: Use device model to get driver name in skb_gso_segment()
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:32:28 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120117.103228.149366421965709494.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120116224138.GA12523@gondor.apana.org.au>
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:41:38 +1100
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:38:59PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> ethtool operations generally require the caller to hold RTNL and are
>> not safe to call in atomic context. The device model provides this
>> information for most devices; we'll only lose it for some old ISA
>> drivers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
>
> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-17 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-16 22:38 [PATCH net 1/2] net: Use device model to get driver name in skb_gso_segment() Ben Hutchings
2012-01-16 22:41 ` Herbert Xu
2012-01-17 15:32 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-01-16 22:43 ` [PATCH net 2/2] net: WARN if skb_checksum_help() is called on skb requiring segmentation Ben Hutchings
2012-01-17 6:11 ` Herbert Xu
2012-01-17 15:32 ` David Miller
2012-01-17 17:15 ` Ben Hutchings
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