diff --git a/src/device/net/dev.rs b/src/device/net/dev.rs
index aa96573d..d3c3119d 100644
--- a/src/device/net/dev.rs
+++ b/src/device/net/dev.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ use super::net_buf::{RxBuffer, TxBuffer};
 use super::{EthernetAddress, VirtIONetRaw};
 use crate::{hal::Hal, transport::Transport, Error, Result};
 
-/// Driver for a VirtIO block device.
+/// Driver for a VirtIO network device.
 ///
 /// Unlike [`VirtIONetRaw`], it uses [`RxBuffer`]s for transmission and
 /// reception rather than the raw slices. On initialization, it pre-allocates
diff --git a/src/device/net/dev_raw.rs b/src/device/net/dev_raw.rs
index 37e720f7..39a84529 100644
--- a/src/device/net/dev_raw.rs
+++ b/src/device/net/dev_raw.rs
@@ -70,14 +70,14 @@ impl<H: Hal, T: Transport, const QUEUE_SIZE: usize> VirtIONetRaw<H, T, QUEUE_SIZ
 
     /// Disable interrupts.
     pub fn disable_interrupts(&mut self) {
-        self.send_queue.disable_dev_notify();
-        self.recv_queue.disable_dev_notify();
+        self.send_queue.set_dev_notify(false);
+        self.recv_queue.set_dev_notify(false);
     }
 
     /// Enable interrupts.
     pub fn enable_interrupts(&mut self) {
-        self.send_queue.enable_dev_notify();
-        self.recv_queue.enable_dev_notify();
+        self.send_queue.set_dev_notify(true);
+        self.recv_queue.set_dev_notify(true);
     }
 
     /// Get MAC address.
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ impl<H: Hal, T: Transport, const QUEUE_SIZE: usize> VirtIONetRaw<H, T, QUEUE_SIZ
     ///
     /// # Safety
     ///
-    /// The same buffers must be passed in again as were passed to
+    /// The same buffer must be passed in again as were passed to
     /// [`transmit_begin`] when it returned the token.
     ///
     /// [`transmit_begin`]: Self::transmit_begin
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ impl<H: Hal, T: Transport, const QUEUE_SIZE: usize> VirtIONetRaw<H, T, QUEUE_SIZ
     ///
     /// The caller can then call [`poll_receive`] with the returned token to
     /// check whether the device has finished handling the request. Once it has,
-    /// the caller must call [`receive_complete`] with the same buffers before
+    /// the caller must call [`receive_complete`] with the same buffer before
     /// reading the response.
     ///
     /// # Safety
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ impl<H: Hal, T: Transport, const QUEUE_SIZE: usize> VirtIONetRaw<H, T, QUEUE_SIZ
     ///
     /// # Safety
     ///
-    /// The same buffers must be passed in again as were passed to
+    /// The same buffer must be passed in again as were passed to
     /// [`receive_begin`] when it returned the token.
     ///
     /// [`receive_begin`]: Self::receive_begin
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ impl<H: Hal, T: Transport, const QUEUE_SIZE: usize> VirtIONetRaw<H, T, QUEUE_SIZ
     /// completed.
     pub fn send(&mut self, tx_buf: &[u8]) -> Result {
         let header = VirtioNetHdr::default();
-        if tx_buf.len() == 0 {
+        if tx_buf.is_empty() {
             // Special case sending an empty packet, to avoid adding an empty buffer to the
             // virtqueue.
             self.send_queue.add_notify_wait_pop(
diff --git a/src/queue.rs b/src/queue.rs
index e317e4be..9d1d88c2 100644
--- a/src/queue.rs
+++ b/src/queue.rs
@@ -316,27 +316,15 @@ impl<H: Hal, const SIZE: usize> VirtQueue<H, SIZE> {
         unsafe { self.pop_used(token, inputs, outputs) }
     }
 
-    /// Advise the device that notifications are needed.
+    /// Advise the device whether used buffer notifications are needed.
     ///
     /// See Virtio v1.1 2.6.7 Used Buffer Notification Suppression
-    pub fn enable_dev_notify(&mut self) {
+    pub fn set_dev_notify(&mut self, enable: bool) {
+        let avail_ring_flags = if enable { 0x0000 } else { 0x0001 };
         if !self.event_idx {
             // Safe because self.avail points to a valid, aligned, initialised, dereferenceable, readable
             // instance of AvailRing.
-            unsafe { (*self.avail.as_ptr()).flags = 0x0000 }
-        }
-        // Write barrier so that device can see change to available index after this method returns.
-        fence(Ordering::SeqCst);
-    }
-
-    /// Advise the device that notifications are not needed.
-    ///
-    /// See Virtio v1.1 2.6.7 Used Buffer Notification Suppression
-    pub fn disable_dev_notify(&mut self) {
-        if !self.event_idx {
-            // Safe because self.avail points to a valid, aligned, initialised, dereferenceable, readable
-            // instance of AvailRing.
-            unsafe { (*self.avail.as_ptr()).flags = 0x0001 }
+            unsafe { (*self.avail.as_ptr()).flags = avail_ring_flags }
         }
         // Write barrier so that device can see change to available index after this method returns.
         fence(Ordering::SeqCst);
@@ -1163,12 +1151,12 @@ mod tests {
         // Check that the avail ring's flag is zero by default.
         assert_eq!(unsafe { (*queue.avail.as_ptr()).flags }, 0x0);
 
-        queue.disable_dev_notify();
+        queue.set_dev_notify(false);
 
         // Check that the avail ring's flag is 1 after `disable_dev_notify`.
         assert_eq!(unsafe { (*queue.avail.as_ptr()).flags }, 0x1);
 
-        queue.enable_dev_notify();
+        queue.set_dev_notify(true);
 
         // Check that the avail ring's flag is 0 after `enable_dev_notify`.
         assert_eq!(unsafe { (*queue.avail.as_ptr()).flags }, 0x0);