From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:17:18 +0100

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> On Tuesday 20 January 2009, David Miller wrote:
> > +       buffer = kmalloc(size, GFP_NOIO);
> 
> GFP_NOIO seems out of place in a network driver: there is nothing
> wrong with waiting for I/O here, so plain GFP_KERNEL should be fine.

There seems to be a large precendence for this in other USB drivers,
both for networking and storage.  Probably a mutex or other locking
hierarchy issue.

Really, I would just apply this patch as-is.  It works, it's pretty
clean, and every retort has been a misunderstanding or extreme
nit-picking :-)
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