Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 8/9] 3c59x driver conversion

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:30:03 -0400

David Miller wrote:
> From: Daniel Phillips <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:51:20 -0700
> 
>> 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?
> 
> I think he's saying that he doesn't think your code is yet a
> reasonable way to solve the problem, and therefore doesn't belong
> upstream.

Pretty much.  It is completely non-sensical to add NETIF_F_MEMALLOC, 
when it should be blindingly obvious that every net driver will be 
allocating memory, and every net driver could potentially be used with 
NBD and similar situations.

	Jeff