In order to have at least a netconsole to debug kernel issues on
Windows Azure this patch implements netpoll support.
Sending packets is easy, netvsc_start_xmit() does already everything
needed.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
index 4fd71b7..45218d5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -736,6 +736,14 @@ static int netvsc_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *ndev, void *p)
return err;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
+static void netvsc_poll_controller(struct net_device *net)
+{
+ /* As netvsc_start_xmit() works synchronous we don't have to
+ trigger anything here. */
+ return;
+}[...]
+#endif