From: Daniel Phillips <redacted>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:51:20 -0700

Elaborate please.  Do you think that all drivers should be updated to
fix the broken blockdev semantics, making NETIF_F_MEMALLOC redundant?
If so, I trust you will help audit for it?

I think he's saying that he doesn't think your code is yet a
reasonable way to solve the problem, and therefore doesn't belong
upstream.