From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44D977D8.5070306@google.com> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:51:20 -0700 From: Daniel Phillips MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 8/9] 3c59x driver conversion References: <20060808193325.1396.58813.sendpatchset@lappy> <20060808193447.1396.59301.sendpatchset@lappy> <44D9191E.7080203@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <44D9191E.7080203@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Peter Zijlstra , netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org