netdev - Re: [PATCH] igb: completely disable interrupts during netpoll

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:40:40 -0400
From:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	matthew@....cx, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, bruce.w.allan@...el.com,
	john.ronciak@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] igb: completely disable interrupts during netpoll

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 05:29:11PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:39:31 -0400
> 
> > Just for the record, most of the other net-drivers do it
> > this way too.
> 
> Ummm, really?
> 
> No NAPI based driver I ever wrote does this.

For the poll_controller routines (which is what this patch is about),
quite a few do (bnx2, bnx2x, b44, e1000, and e1000e to name a few).

Much like the other drivers for Intel hardware, the function with
'netpoll' in the name is used for the poll_controller routine whereas
the napi poll routines all have 'clean' in the name.

Sorry if 'most' was misleading, but there are quite a few drivers that
do.
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