Re: [PATCH 0/4] drivers/net/ethernet: replace __get_free_pages() with kmalloc()

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

Date: Wed Jul 08 2026 - 04:56:37 EST


Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:57:17 +0300 you wrote:
> This is a (small) part of larger work of replacing page allocator calls
> with kmalloc.
>
> My initial intention a few month ago was to remove ugly casts [1], but then
> willy pointed out that Linus objected to something like this [2] and it
> looks like more than a decade old technical debt.
>
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
- [1/4] bnx2x: use kzalloc() to allocate mac filtering list
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/28a236c54c9a
- [2/4] ice: use kzalloc() to allocate staging buffer for reading from GNSS
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/764f2a0c6d1e
- [3/4] sfc/siena: use kmalloc() to allocate logging buffer
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/50bfc5eac4cb
- [4/4] sfc: use kmalloc() to allocate logging buffer
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/e8cfc70720ea

You are awesome, thank you!
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