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Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com> writes:
> There are three entry points into the driver.  1) The disk
> layer 2) the netisr routine 3) the rexmit timer.

AFAIK, if the code that calls malloc() can be reached from 2) or 3),
you're not allowed to use M_WAITOK.

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