Subject: Re: [RFC] net: napi fix

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:35:07 -0800

David Miller wrote:
> From: Andrew Gallatin <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:02:25 -0500
>
>   
>> Or perhaps we should just leave things as is.
>>     
>
> We should probably add a "disabling" state bit to the
> napi struct flags, this will be set by napi_disable()
> before it loops trying to set the sched bit.
>
> net_rx_action() can then check this.
>   
How about allowing a return value of -1 from napi_poll and letting device
check itself.