Re: [PATCH 6/7] [NETDEV]: tehuti Fix possible causing oops of net_rx_action

[Joonwoo Park]

2007/12/13, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> From: "Joonwoo Park" <joonwpark81@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:01:27 +0900
>
>
> Any time your trying to make a caller "happy" by adjusting
> a return value forcefully, it's a hack.
>
> And I stated this in another reply about this issue.
>
> Please do not fix the problem this way.
>
> The correct way to fix this is, if we did process a full
> "weight" or work, we should not netif_rx_complete() and
> we should not re-enable chip interrupts.
>
> Instead we should return the true "work_done" value and
> allow the caller to thus poll us one more time.
>

Thanks so much for your advice.
I agree, returning work_done itself exactly.
I will rework for these drivers.

Thanks.
Joonwoo
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