Re: [PATCH net v2] net: Don't allow disabling napi kthread mode while napi instances are disabled

[Paolo Abeni]

On 10/8/26 12:19, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> On 10/8/26 04:11, netdev-bot+sashiko@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Would it be better to handle disabled NAPIs in the stop path itself,
> > napi_stop_kthread() or napi_set_threaded(), rather than only guarding the
> > explicit disable branch?
>
> Hmmm maybe yes
My personal take is that the complexity of addressing the issue for good at
the core level sounds like a good argument to fix this at the device level,
one device at the time, as needed.

Otherwise I'll probably got for the suggested path above.

Thanks,

Paolo