Re: [RFC] net: napi fix

Kok, Auke
2007-12-13T16:48:16Z

David Miller wrote:
> From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:13:54 -0500
>
>> If the netif_running() check is indeed required to make a device break
>> out of napi polling and respond to an ifconfig down, then I think the
>> netif_running() check should be moved up into net_rx_action() to avoid
>> potential for driver complexity and bugs like the ones you found.
>
> That, or something like it, definitely sounds reasonable and much
> better than putting the check into every driver :-)

hear hear!

Auke