From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:27:47 +0100
> Please revisit the requirements that netconsole needs and redesign > it from scratch. The existing code is causing too much breakage. > > Can it be done without breaking the semantics of network devices, or > should we rewrite the driver interface to take have a different > interface like netdev_sync_send_skb() that is slow, synchronous and > non-interrupt (ie polls for completion). Of course, then people > will complain that netconsole traffic slows the machine down. for > completion. I couldn't agree more. Since netpoll runs outside of all of the normal netdevice locking rules, only the people using netpoll hit all the bugs. That means most of us do not test out these code path, which is bad. So, if anything, a more integrated implementation is essential. - 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
