From: "Tantilov, Emil S" <emil.s.tantilov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:19:38 +0000 > That would work, but what if there are other callers of > ndo_start_xmit that don't have this check? Handling this in the > driver takes care of all instances. netif_carrier_off() is supposed to stop traffic from flowing to the device. The qdisc layer should be honoring this property, and my suspicion is that it is just netpoll operates in the unique environment that doesn't. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html