From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] Use SLAB_PANIC when creating critical slab cache Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:51:59 -0200 Message-ID: <4197EF9F.50300@conectiva.com.br> References: <20041114121837.X2357@build.pdx.osdl.net> <20041114122400.D2357@build.pdx.osdl.net> <4197BFC5.5080800@conectiva.com.br> <20041114145157.G2357@build.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Chris Wright In-Reply-To: <20041114145157.G2357@build.pdx.osdl.net> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Chris Wright wrote: > * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br) wrote: > >>Chris, >> >> I think somebody proposed this in the past and it was refused >>because we better get rid of the panics and return an error, propagate >>it and refuse to load the module, better have the machine still alive >>but without networking than panic it. > > > Sounds good too. Part of my thinking was that these patches would be a > good chance to review if these are necessarily panic conditions. What was > the plan on error return, since I expect some caches are interdependent? I lost track, perhaps we should push this to the janitor mailing list? :-) - Arnaldo