Re: [RFC Patch 2/3] bridge: make bridge support netpoll

[David Miller]

From: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:51:01 -0500

> On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 12:39 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
>> Matt Mackall wrote:
>> How could you let the bridge know netpoll is not sent to
>> the one that doesn't support netpoll during setup? This will
>> be complex, I am afraid.
> 
> I thought I saw a simple loop over bridge devices at poll time in your
> patch. So it should be a simple matter of skipping unsupported devices
> in that loop.

It's because of all that "assign ->npinfo to slaves" crap he has to do
the way his patches are currently implemented.

It's basically another sign that the design is wrong.
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