Re: [PATCH] natsemi: NAPI support

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:19:34AM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> :

> > I had been under the impression that the stack was supposed to make sure
> > that no poll() is running before the driver close() gets called?

> Not exactly. dev_close() waits a bit but it can not be sure that the
> device driver will not schedule ->poll() from its irq handler later.

Prior to waiting dev_close() clears __LINK_STATE_START which will cause
netif_rx_schedule_prep() to return false.  As far as I can see that
should prevent the interrupt handler scheduling any further poll() calls?

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