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font-family:Arial">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I could see all the network device drivers are using polling
functionality for processing Tx / Rx packets. Why interrupt is not use for
processing Tx and Rx packets? Also I could see irq entry point function as part
of net_device_operations. What is the use of this function?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Lucida Calligraphy" size="1"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"">Thanks,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Lucida Calligraphy" size="1"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"">~Sivakumar S</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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