On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:42:39PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > You'll need to find a way to do netpoll without disabling hw IRQs > during these driver methods. Then netpoll would be universally > usable, as it would even work with drivers which are software tunnels > and which feed packets back into the networking stack once they > encapsulate, which currently netpoll cannot handle.
Netpoll is intended to be a replacement for the requirement of serial cables for doing things like tricky oops capture and kgdb. If we move to softirq-only processing, it will not be a serial cable replacement. It won't capture the tricky oopses you normally need a serial cable for and it won't work with kgdb. It will be an awkward syslogd and nothing more. I won't have any use for it and I suspect no one else will either. It will be universally pointless. And no one cares about netconsole over tunnels (the first I've ever heard of that idea) if it can't capture oopses that syslogd can't already. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
