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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 8/9] 3c59x driver conversion
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:51:20 -0700
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Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
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To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> Update the driver to make use of the netdev_alloc_skb() API and the
>> NETIF_F_MEMALLOC feature.
> 
> NETIF_F_MEMALLOC does not exist in the upstream tree...  nor should it, 
> IMO.

Elaborate please.  Do you think that all drivers should be updated to
fix the broken blockdev semantics, making NETIF_F_MEMALLOC redundant?
If so, I trust you will help audit for it?

> netdev_alloc_skb() is in the tree, and that's fine.