netdev - Re: [V3 Patch 1/3] netpoll: disable netpoll when enslave a device

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Date:	Sun, 22 May 2011 21:03:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	amwang@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [V3 Patch 1/3] netpoll: disable netpoll when enslave a device

From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 15:39:10 +0800

> V3: rename NETDEV_ENSLAVE to NETDEV_JOIN
> 
> Currently we do nothing when we enslave a net device which is running netconsole.
> Neil pointed out that we may get weird results in such case, so let's disable
> netpoll on the device being enslaved. I think it is too harsh to prevent
> the device being ensalved if it is running netconsole.
> 
> By the way, this patch also removes the NETDEV_GOING_DOWN from netconsole
> netdev notifier, because netpoll will check if the device is running or not
> and we don't handle NETDEV_PRE_UP neither.
> 
> This patch is based on net-next-2.6.
> 
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>

Applied.
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