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

[Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 03:59:58PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 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...

Hrm, it appears I forgot about that when I did the recent rework.

> 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?

It walked a global list of clients.

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