Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Dec 2005 01:19:34 +0100 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] natsemi: NAPI support |
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Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> : [...] > I had been under the impression that the stack was supposed to make sure > that no poll() is running before the driver close() gets called ?
Not exactly. dev_close() waits a bit but it can not be sure that the device driver will not schedule ->poll() from its irq handler later.
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