On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 17:08 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 12:10 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: 
> > 
> > I did this , just take it ;)
> 
> Do we have to pass gfp to ->ndo_netpoll_setup() too? It seems no, so far
> I don't think we have to do that.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

It is needed.

->ndo_netpoll_setup() is called from __netpoll_setup()

So it would make no sense to allow GFP_KERNEL allocations in
ndo_netpoll_setup() hgandlers if we called __netpoll_setup() with
GFP_ATOMIC gfp



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