Just to keep the issue open, drivers/net/ipg.c currently in 2.6.24-rc6
still leaks skbuffs like a sieve. Run it for a few hours with network
traffic and the machine swaps like crazy while the oom killer goes nuts.
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index d9107e5..4fa392c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ config IP1000
select MII
---help---
This driver supports IP1000 gigabit Ethernet cards.
+ It works, but suffers from a memory leak. Signifcant
+ use will consume unswappable kernel memory until the
+ machine runs out of memory and crashes. Thus, this
+ driver cannot be considered usable at the the present time.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called ipg. This is recommended.
Or should it be demoted to BROKEN? It compiles, and sends and receives
packets, which is better than a lot of BROKEN drivers.
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