linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] 8139too: Remove unnecessary netif_napi

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Message-Id: <20180525.163700.2205201673384613648.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 25 May 2018 16:37:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     chenbo@....edu
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8139too: Remove unnecessary netif_napi_del()

From: Bo Chen <chenbo@....edu>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 12:48:35 -0700

> The call to free_netdev() in __rtl8139_cleanup_dev() clears the network device
> napi list, and explicit calls to netif_napi_del() are unnecessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <chenbo@....edu>

Since this is just unnecessary work and not a bug, applied to net-next.

Thanks.