On Thursday 28 October 2004 12:51, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > > The starting/stopping we're talking about is equivalent to what network > devices do (quiescing the functional part of the device), though > extrapolated to all types of devices. Network driver "start" is "send this packet", "stop" is "ifdown". You may be thinking of the queue operations, which are a slightly better analogy. Drivers will block the TX queue, but that doesn't affect the RX side. - Dave
