Re: 2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a?
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2008-01-08 07:07:09
From: linux@horizon.com Date: 8 Jan 2008 01:52:11 -0500
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@@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ config IP1000 select MII ---help--- This driver supports IP1000 gigabit Ethernet cards. + It works, but suffers from a memory leak. Signifcant + use will consume unswappable kernel memory until the + machine runs out of memory and crashes. Thus, this + driver cannot be considered usable at the the present time.
This is not how we handle and track bugs. Such a patch is inappropriate, and I'd like to ask that you just be patient until someone has a chance to try and figure out what the problem is. Or even better, you can try to track down the problem yourself since you seem to have a specific interest in this problem. Thanks.