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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	dilinger@voxel.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] more CardServices() removals (drivers/net/wireless)
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 06:36:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031225123637.GK18208@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FEAB1D6.9030209@mvista.com>

On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 01:45:58AM -0800, George Anzinger wrote:
> 
> By the way, in my looking at the network link stuff, I started wondering if 
> it could not be done without modifying the card stuff.  Here is what I see:
> 
> The poll routine just calls the interrupt handler.  We only need the 
> address of that routine and a generic poll function to do the indirect 
> call.  That address, once the link is up, can be found in the interrupt 
> tables using the irq.

Netpoll did exactly this in an earlier incarnation, but Jeff
eventually convinced me it was problematic.

-- 
Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : Linux development and consulting

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-25 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-24  1:44 [PATCH 5/7] more CardServices() removals (drivers/net/wireless) Andres Salomon
2003-12-24  2:28 ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-24  2:34   ` Andres Salomon
2003-12-24  2:38   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-24  2:48     ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-24  3:04       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-24  4:23         ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-24  4:33           ` Matt Mackall
2003-12-25  9:45             ` George Anzinger
2003-12-25  9:55               ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-25 12:36               ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2003-12-26 22:29                 ` George Anzinger
2003-12-24  7:49     ` [PATCH] final CardServices() removal patches Andres Salomon
2003-12-24  9:29     ` [PATCH 5/7] more CardServices() removals (drivers/net/wireless) Arjan van de Ven

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