netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Add napi_sycnhronize() to sync with napi poll

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Message-Id: <1192670352.12879.2.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:19:12 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add napi_sycnhronize() to sync with napi poll


> This implements a low level __napi_synchronize() function to acheive
> that. The underscores are to emphasis the low level aspect of it and
> to discourage driver writers who don't know what they are doing to
> use it (to please DaveM :-)

And I forgot to remove that bit from the description... as pointed out
by Josh. Grrr...

Ben.


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