Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> : > Am 09.07.2014 00:47, schrieb Francois Romieu: [...] > > What are you taking about ? netconsole does not need to receive. > > Isn't netconsole is only one user of netpoll ? Out of tree users are irrelevant. See netpoll related comments in cd6362befe4cc7bf589a5236d2a780af2d47bcc9 > Of course netconsole needs only to transmit SKBs. > But if you look at other ->ndo_poll_controller implementations > you'll notice that they care also about receiving. It's just the long, illuminating history of netpoll :o) Some limited Rx netpoll support may be done but it needs more work than was originally advertised. > > hyperv start_xmit handler almost does its own Tx completion as you have > > noticed. The situation is imho close to a virtual device one as was veth > > in bb446c19fefd7b4435adb12a9dd7666adc5b553a. > > Bad commit reference: bb446c19fefd7b4435adb12a9dd7666adc5b553a Sorry, it currently belongs to davem's net-next. -- Ueimor _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
