netdevice: document NETDEV_TX_BUSY deprecation.
authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Fri, 3 Apr 2015 11:47:17 +0000 (22:17 +1030)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 3 Apr 2015 16:37:36 +0000 (12:37 -0400)
commite79d8429aac95a5cbe4c235795c7cd554c91f924
tree3989a7a6e5c63fd999a1e329ea80dea0788453b2
parent0bd66827220a7292bfbed54fb547c83363e07405
netdevice: document NETDEV_TX_BUSY deprecation.

This paraphrases DaveM (and steals some of his words) explaining why
a device shouldn't return NETDEV_TX_BUSY, even though it looks so inviting
to driver authors.

See http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg322350.html

Inspired-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/netdevice.h