On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 03:39 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Are you refering to "What NOT to do if you dont want your machine to > crash:"?
yes. > I think we should make sure users can't even accidentally > crash their box, so this should at least be caught at runtime. It is hard to do without penalizing the common use. Hence the documentation. Sometimes - that is the most sane thing to do. >I thought the TTL stuff was intended to avoid this .. The problem is recursive dev queue locking of the same device. TTL is not very helpful there. I dont want to rehash all those discussions we already had; so if you have a clever way to fix this (without affecting performance of a sane user), please send a patch and lets discuss. 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
