Re: [PATCH 0/2] netpoll: Trivial updates

From: Cong Wang <redacted>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:49:23 +0800

于 2011年07月01日 11:35, Joe Perches 写道:

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BTW, you can kill the export of netpoll_send_skb_on_dev() too.

Not too sure about that.

It's used in netpoll.h by netpoll_send_skb.
It could be called from anywhere.
It's currently called/used by bonding.h.

% git grep netpoll_send_skb_on_dev .
include/linux/netpoll.h:void netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(struct netpoll
*np, struct sk_buff *skb,
include/linux/netpoll.h: netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(np, skb, np->dev);
net/core/netpoll.c:void netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(struct netpoll *np,
struct sk_buff *skb,
net/core/netpoll.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(netpoll_send_skb_on_dev);

No modules use it...

Right, this is a relic that bonding was using at one point
in the past but it no longer does.