Hi,
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 03:18:41PM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Curiousity: we only ever seem to see these out-of-mem reports for
> eepro. Why not for the other drivers as well?
A good question :-)
To be honest, most network drivers do not handle such conditions well and
just hang. At least, it was so in old eepro100 drivers, and I remember such
reports (and fixes) for tulip and some other ones.
I think it is very useful to receive explanations from the kernel
why your network communications hang or you see a high packet lost.
Don't you think so? :-)
At least, the messages helped me a lot to debug the OOM situations and
recovery.
So, the eepro100 reports are the call to other driver maintainers to do the
same :-)
Best regards
Andrey
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat May 27 2000 - 04:09:44 EDT