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Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] wifi: mt76: move napi_enable() from under BH

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On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:25:46 +0100 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> napi_schedule() can run from arbitrary contexts though...
> 
> BH protection seems strange to me, but this is orthogonal to your fix.

Right, it doesn't need the BH "protection", it's just what we 
do to make sure there is a softirq hook point after we call it.
Since local_irq_restore() does not call softirqs. 

I didn't know how to express that in a way that would be understandable
for most :S

Thanks for catching the other bug!




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