Commit bea3348eef27e6044b6161fd04c3152215f96411 ('[NET]: Make NAPI
polling independent of struct net_device objects.') removed the
automatic disabling of NAPI polling by dev_close(), and drivers
must now do this themselves.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
---
Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
index 8935834..336fe8e 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
@@ -54,8 +54,7 @@ dev->open:
dev->stop:
Synchronization: rtnl_lock() semaphore.
Context: process
- Note1: netif_running() is guaranteed false
- Note2: dev->poll() is guaranteed to be stopped
+ Note: netif_running() is guaranteed false
dev->do_ioctl:
Synchronization: rtnl_lock() semaphore.
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1.7.7.6
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Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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