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From: freeman.zhang1992@gmail.com (Freeman Zhang)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Writing driver for a net device which does not support interrupt
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:51:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <550FF047.90103@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi list,

I'm writing a net device driver for my final project in college. But the
half-finished device doesn't support interrupt yet(those hardware guys...)

So I'm wondering if there is some way to poll the device for its status
and events.

Google tells me 'NAPI' uses a polling mechanism, but it still needs
hardware interrupt support :(

Any suggestions?


Thanks
Freeman

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             reply	other threads:[~2015-03-23 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-23 10:51 Freeman Zhang [this message]
2015-03-23 15:51 ` Writing driver for a net device which does not support interrupt Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-03-24  1:24   ` Freeman Zhang
2015-03-23 16:59 ` phil
2015-03-24  1:34   ` Freeman Zhang
2015-03-24 16:52     ` Daniel Baluta

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