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virtio: Enable netpoll interface for netconsole logging
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Add a new poll_controller handler that the netpoll interface needs.

This enables netconsole logging from a kvm guest over the virtio
net interface.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amitshah@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Amit Shah authored and Rusty Russell committed Mar 17, 2008
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@@ -294,6 +294,15 @@ static int start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
return 0;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
static void virtnet_netpoll(struct net_device *dev)
{
struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);

napi_schedule(&vi->napi);
}
#endif

static int virtnet_open(struct net_device *dev)
{
struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
@@ -336,6 +345,9 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
dev->stop = virtnet_close;
dev->hard_start_xmit = start_xmit;
dev->features = NETIF_F_HIGHDMA;
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
dev->poll_controller = virtnet_netpoll;
#endif
SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &vdev->dev);

/* Do we support "hardware" checksums? */

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