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
next prev 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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