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Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:57:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	emil.s.tantilov@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com, asharma@...com,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next 01/16] ixgbe: add check for netif_carrier_ok in
 ixgbe_xmit_frame

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 02:47:11 -0700

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> index 851c413..8bea6ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> @@ -7121,6 +7121,11 @@ static netdev_tx_t __ixgbe_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb,
>  	struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
>  	struct ixgbe_ring *tx_ring;
>  
> +	if (!netif_carrier_ok(netdev)) {
> +		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
> +		return NETDEV_TX_OK;
> +	}
> +

I would much prefer that this check moves into netpoll's direct invocation of
->ndo_start_xmit().

Otherwise every driver will start to add this check and that kind of
duplication doesn't make any sense at all.

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