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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: add NAPI support back

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On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 12:00 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote:

> It's fine. But I guess it's nicer to add a small ieee80211 wrapper for
> it that also clears local->napi? not sure.

Well if the whole thing is going down there's little point in that.

> In general can we even add/remove napi when an interface is up or is
> it a bad idea? if it is, maybe it should be warned/blocked? I guess
> the scoping wasn't really clear for me, but maybe it is for anyone
> familiar with napi.

It seems that isn't allowed, the locking would seem rather missing for
that? *Maybe* if the driver locks everything, but even then I'd be wary.

johannes

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