On Sun, 2005-24-07 at 20:14 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > I see one place where input_dev could be something different, > the mirred stuff. And in fact this ends up being the one > place where an input_dev reference can escape the singular > execution of the input packet path in softirq context. > > For that mirred case, or something like it, we'll need to do > something involving argument passing and/or reference counting. > > The ing_filter() pure-input path is very clean with my suggested > change to just pass the device into the queueing layer so that > classifiers et al. can get at it that way. > > Posting a bunch of patches that explicitly set input_dev to dev > right before netif_rx() sort of further proves my point :-) >
;-> Let me sleep it over and think about it - I am not thinking straight right now. I am back home, so i should be able to dig all my notes. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
