Re: + oops-in-drivers-net-shaperc.patch added to -mm tree

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Jan 26 2007 - 22:13:00 EST


From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:01:46 +1100

> In fact, the shaper device doesn't even seem to take a ref count of
> the device it has attached to. So that device can go away at any time.
> What's more, there are drivers that can change hard_header at run-time
> (s390).

Indeed, it needs to do refcounting or something here, at a minimum,
this driver is so buggy and full of problems :-/

Thankfully it's marked OBSOLETE so we'll get rid of it eventually :)
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