netdev - Re: [PATCH next 1/2]e1000: e1000_adapter->polling

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Date:	Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:07:39 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	wangchen@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH next 1/2]e1000: e1000_adapter->polling_netdev is useless

From: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:57:41 +0800

> David Miller said the following on 2008-12-3 7:06:
> > 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.
> 
> Commit bea3348eef27e6044b6161fd04c3152215f96411
> "[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects."
> made NAPI polling to be independent of net_device.
> So e1000_adapter->polling_netdev is no longer used.
> Kill it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>

Applied, thanks Wang.

Jeff, I know you said you are regression-testing this.  If you
find some problem we can revert or add a fix.

Thanks!
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