From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: hjanssen@microsoft.com, kys@microsoft.com,
v-abkane@microsoft.com, gregkh@suse.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
virtualization@lists.osdl.org, stable <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging: hv: fix a kernel warning in netvsc_linkstatus_callback()
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 09:10:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110705161007.GA24332@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308322688-9796-5-git-send-email-haiyangz@microsoft.com>
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:58:08AM -0700, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> netif_notify_peers() is not allowed in netvsc_linkstatus_callback() on some
> distros,
"distros"? Huh? You mean kernel versions right?
And this doesn't matter for the current kernel, right? If not, then it
doesn't need to be applied. If so, then it should. Which is it?
> because netvsc_linkstatus_callback() is within IRQ context. So we
> move the first call to netif_notify_peers() into queued work as well, but with
> zero delay.
What happens if you don't have this patch applied? What breaks? Is it
just a warning? Something else?
Please resend this with more information.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-05 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1308322688-9796-1-git-send-email-haiyangz@microsoft.com>
2011-06-17 14:58 ` [PATCH 2/5] staging: hv: remove unnecessary includes in netvsc Haiyang Zhang
2011-06-17 14:58 ` [PATCH 3/5] staging: hv: add newline to log messages " Haiyang Zhang
2011-06-17 14:58 ` [PATCH 4/5] staging: hv: convert dev_<loglevel> to netdev_<loglevel> " Haiyang Zhang
2011-06-17 14:58 ` [PATCH 5/5] staging: hv: fix a kernel warning in netvsc_linkstatus_callback() Haiyang Zhang
2011-06-17 16:03 ` [PATCH 1/5] staging: hv: fix some white spaces in netvsc driver Nicolas Kaiser
2011-06-17 16:43 ` Haiyang Zhang
[not found] ` <1308322688-9796-5-git-send-email-haiyangz@microsoft.com>
2011-07-05 16:10 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-07-05 18:45 ` [PATCH 5/5] staging: hv: fix a kernel warning in netvsc_linkstatus_callback() Haiyang Zhang
2011-07-05 16:11 ` [PATCH 1/5] staging: hv: fix some white spaces in netvsc driver Greg KH
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