[PATCH] ucc_geth: Move freeing of TX packets to NAPI context.

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Tue Mar 31 07:36:48 EST 2009


From: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:01:33 +0200

> I don't know. But the question you should ask is: Does the networking
> code promise this now and for the future? If not, you should
> fix the driver not to relay on netif_queue_stopped() here.

Stop this nonsense talk.

If the driver can't be the one and only controller of the TX queue
state, everything would essentially explode.

The fact is, it does.



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