Subject: Re: [RFC] net: napi fix

From: Andrew Gallatin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:40:03 -0500

David Miller wrote:
> From: Andrew Gallatin <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:29:23 -0500
> 
>> Is the netif_running() check even required?
> 
> No, it is not.
> 
> When a device is brought down, one of the first things
> that happens is that we wait for all pending NAPI polls
> to complete, then block any new polls from starting.

Great, thanks.  I will submit a patch to remove the bogus
check.  This should fix myri10ge properly.

Thank you,

Drew