netdev - Re: [Question] e1000: e1000_adapter->polling

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Date:	Wed, 3 Dec 2008 01:48:32 -0800
From:	"Jeff Kirsher" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	wangchen@...fujitsu.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Question] e1000: e1000_adapter->polling_netdev is useless

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:06 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:33:09 +0800
>
>> e1000_adapter->polling_netdev is not actually used after allocated.
>> So, my question is that is it useless?
>
> It's probably a leftover from before we added support for
> multiqueue NAPI.
>
> Intel folks can probably confirm.
> --
>

Yeah, Dave appears to be correct.

-- 
Cheers,
Jeff
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