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

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org
Date: 2026-07-08 08:50:37
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Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni [off-list ref]:

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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