Re: NIC driver: Newbie question

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:51:19 +0100 (BST)

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> This is a Network card driver newbie question.
> I am trying to learn how to use the NET_BH for developing a network card driver.
>
> Under what circumstance(s) do you call mark_bh(NET_BH).

When you want the network stack to wake up and do stuff, so in Linux 2.2
when you want it to call your hard_start_xmit with new buffers
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