Re: [RFC] net: napi fix

David Miller
2007-12-13T14:19:54Z

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 :-)