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From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Subject: Re: netconsole breaks netpoll on bridge
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:06:58 +0200
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Am 16.06.2014 23:30, schrieb Francois Romieu:
> Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag> :
> [...]
>> That sounds great! Is there anything I can do or some code I can port to veth?
> 
> You may add an empty handler for .ndo_poll_controller in drivers/net/veth.c
> and give it a try on current kernel.
> 
> It should not be too bad.
> 
Why is an empty poll controller enough to fix it? This sounds a bit
crazy to me.


Greets,
Stefan