From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 2/3] bridge: make bridge support netpoll
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:35:07 -0500
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On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 04:17 -0400, Amerigo Wang wrote:
> Based on the previous patch, make bridge support netpoll by:
> 
> 1) implement the 4 methods to support netpoll for bridge;
> 
> 2) modify netpoll during forwarding packets in bridge;
> 
> 3) disable netpoll support of bridge when a netpoll-unabled device
>    is added to bridge;

Not sure if this is the right thing to do. Shouldn't we simply enable
polling on all devices that support it and warn about the others (aka
best effort)?

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