From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:43:13 -0700 > This is the long-winded, careful, and polite version of removing the netpoll > receive packet processing. > > First I untangle the code in small steps. Then I modify the code to not > force reception and dropping of packets when we are transmiting a packet > with netpoll. Finally I move all of the packet reception under > CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP and delete CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP. > > If someone wants to do a stable backport of these patches, it would > require backporting the first 18 patches that handle the budget == 0 in > the networking drivers, and the first 6 of these patches. > > If anyone wants to resurrect netpoll packet reception someday it should > just be a matter of reverting the last patch. Series applied, thanks Eric. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html