netdev - Re: [Question] e1000: e1000_adapter->polling

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Message-Id: <20081202.150623.70107608.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:06:23 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	wangchen@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Question] e1000: e1000_adapter->polling_netdev is useless

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.
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