From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751480Ab2AUSjp (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:39:45 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:42076 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750980Ab2AUSjn (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:39:43 -0500 Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:39:33 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20120121.133933.227768598621914035.davem@davemloft.net> To: netdev@pradeepdalvi.com Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] netdev/ethernet: dev_alloc_skb to netdev_alloc_skb From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <1327156996-12505-1-git-send-email-netdev@pradeepdalvi.com> <1327161238.2574.3.camel@edumazet-laptop> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.4 on Emacs 23.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:39:37 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Pradeep A. Dalvi" Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:16:06 +0530 > I appreciate your concerns. Although I feel, it is essential to add > relevant comments by respective (corporate/paid :-) developers, if > their hardware needs hardcoded 2. And especially, if their expectation > is to buy their hardware, even for the smaller purpose of having > uniform mechanism. Long live Open Source! :-) I see the smiley but it is your responsibility to learn how a driver works before making changes to it that break them. Stop talking such foolishness, it is very unbecoming of a serious developer.