Re: [PATCH 4/7] netpoll: fix ->poll() locking

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:02:43 -0400
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Oh yes, of course.  Somehow I managed to forget that we now squirrel away
> the struct netpoll pointer in the net_device.  Previously you could
> register multiple netpoll clients to one device, and this was useful for
> say doing netconsole and netdump over the same interface.  If we've removed
> this ability, this is a bad thing.  Oh dear...

In such a configuration, how did the netpoll code "tell" who the
receive packets were for or did it send them to all registered
netpoll clients for that device?

Just curious.