Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v5] usbnet: allow status interrupt URB to always be active

From: Oliver Neukum <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:50:30 +0200

On Thursday 11 April 2013 10:31:31 Ming Lei wrote:
 
> 'mem_flags' isn't needed any more since we can apply allocation
> of GFP_NOIO automatically in resume path now, and you can always
> use GFP_KERNEL safely. Considered that it is a API, please don't
> introduce it.

The automatic system goes a long way, but there are corner cases, for example
work queues, which still need mem_flags.

	Regards
		Oliver