NAPI question about old drivers

[Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason Lunz writes:
 > 
 > I'm reading the NAPI patch and I don't understand how old drivers can
 > continue to work.

 > what happens to legacy drivers that don't set dev->poll? I see
 > netif_rx() has been modified, but drivers that call that and don't have
 > a dev->poll will be in trouble when net_rx_action() runs.

 All netif_rx drivers are handled as one common net_device with name 
 blog_dev it's defined in struct softnet_data. It's "dev->poll" method is 
 process_backlog in dev.c. 

 Cheers.

                                                --ro