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SubjectRe: [PATCH] natsemi: NAPI support
Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> :
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> 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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