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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:26:45 +0800

> Note that this patch needs to be reverted in net-next-2.6 as
> bridge netpoll works correctly there.

Ok, will do.

> bridge: Partially disable netpoll support
> 
> The new netpoll code in bridging contains use-after-free bugs
> that are non-trivial to fix.
> 
> This patch fixes this by removing the code that uses skbs after
> they're freed.
> 
> As a consequence, this means that we can no longer call bridge
> from the netpoll path, so this patch also removes the controller
> function in order to disable netpoll.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Applied, thanks Herbert.