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authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>2012-04-05 16:39:10 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-04-06 08:43:12 +0200
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parentethtool: Remove exception to the requirement of holding RTNL lock (diff)
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doc, net: Remove obsolete reference to dev->poll
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 <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
index 89358341682a..336fe8e85b20 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.