linux-kernel - Re: [v5 Patch 1/3] netpoll: add generic support for bridge and bonding devices

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Message-Id: <20100506.004457.71584133.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 06 May 2010 00:44:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mpm@...enic.com
Cc:	amwang@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	gospo@...hat.com, nhorman@...driver.com, jmoyer@...hat.com,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, fubar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [v5 Patch 1/3] netpoll: add generic support for bridge and
 bonding devices

From: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 21:05:30 -0500

> On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 04:11 -0400, Amerigo Wang wrote:
>> V5:
>> Fix coding style problems pointed by David.
> 
> Aside from my concern about the policy of disabling netpoll on
> bridges/bonds with only partial netpoll support, I don't have any
> remaining issues with this. But I'll leave it to other folks to ack the
> underlying driver bits for this series.

Yes the partial support handling is a thorny issue.

But this patch set makes things better than they were before, because
support over such devices didn't work at all previously.

So I'll toss these patches into net-next-2.6, thanks everyone!
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