From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from bu3sch.de ([62.75.166.246]:33704 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751602AbZEOUzO (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 16:55:14 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 V2] b43legacy: Remove unnecessary MMIO in interrupt hotpath Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 22:53:56 +0200 Cc: John Linville , Stefano Brivio , wireless , Broadcom Linux References: <4A0DD2F8.2070804@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: <4A0DD2F8.2070804@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200905152253.56339.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 15 May 2009 22:39:20 Larry Finger wrote: > From: Stefano Brivio > > This removes unnecessary MMIO accesses in the interrupt hotpath. The > patch by Michael Buesch for b43 has been ported to b43legacy. > > Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio > Tested-by: Larry Finger > --- > > John, > > This is 2.6.31 material. I am submitting this for Stefano because > this patch touches a section of the code that had to be changed > to fix a locking problem. > > I hope this patch does not cause any problems. My normal method > is not available while I'm away from home. > > V2 does not try to eliminate any "unused" DMA rings. If any should be > eliminated, that will be in a separate patch. ACK -- Greetings, Michael.