From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Question] e1000: e1000_adapter->polling_netdev is useless
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:06:23 -0800 (PST)
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From: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:33:09 +0800

> e1000_adapter->polling_netdev is not actually used after allocated.
> So, my question is that is it useless?

It's probably a leftover from before we added support for
multiqueue NAPI.

Intel folks can probably confirm.