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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:39:00 -0600

> So...it would appear that the NAPI code is somehow buggy, and
> 6ba33ac should probably be reverted until the problem is found and
> fixed.

No I think the problem is simple enough that someone should study the
->poll() routine quickly and audit it's return values.