Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 5 authors, 2013-02-06

Re: [PATCH v4] netpoll: protect napi_poll and poll_controller during dev_[open|close]

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2013-02-03 21:06:00

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Sat,  2 Feb 2013 13:51:16 -0500
I can't say Im a huge fan of returning -EBUSY in open/close, but I
like it better than busy waiting while the poll path completes.
Sorry Neil, this is a show stopper for me.

There is no reason why, just because of bad timing, a device open or
close that would normally succeed, should fail.  And this situation is
only being created because the mutual exclusion and context handling
is "hard", well that's too bad :-)
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