Re: [PATCH 1/2 v5] usbnet: allow status interrupt URB to always be active

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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> I think you are turning this the wrong way around. Please explain why
> there are no use cases where different flags are needed.  You seem to be
> only concerned about the resume case. This API is not limited to
> resuming. We pass mem_flags around all the time. It's the common thing
> to do in any API where allocations may be required.

No always, we can find many many APIs which doesn't have the memflags
parameter but may allocate memory.

My point is very simple: if GFP_KERNEL is enough, why bother to pass one
memflag parameter?

Thanks,
-- 
Ming Lei
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