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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:32:40 -0400

> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > Yes, but there are users that don't go through qdiscs, like netpoll,
> > Having them check the QDISC_RUNNING bit seems ugly.
> 
> Is netpoll the only such user?
> 
> netpoll tends to be a special case in every sense of the word, and I 
> wish it was less so :/

Seconded.

I'm perfectly happy to consider rearchitecting of netpoll to something
that works better.