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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: add dev_close_many
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Monday 13 December 2010, 19:32:21

> With a message based interface, there shouldn't be a need for this.
> Just have one thread sending requests in user space, and one receiving
> the ACK's.

Sorry, you lost me here :) There is no need for the kernel thread / workqueue 
or not even for dev_close_many?