polling(4) and rl(4)

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:44:37AM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> >As an aside, I've started working on the ``[-]polling'' option for
> >ifconfig(8) that, when done, will allow changing the polling status
> >of individual interfaces in run-time, e.g., the following command
> >will disable polling on nge0:
> >
> >	ifconfig nge0 -polling
> > 
> >
> Just a thought, what if iface is not hardware? Netgraph for example? :-)
> 
I can only think of ng_eiface(4) here, and I don't see how it would
benefit at all from having the DEVICE_POLLING support, nor I can see
how such a support would fit into the driver, as the driver doesn't
have any RX/TX queues.  But it can be done of course.  ;)


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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