From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751861AbbKKNlg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2015 08:41:36 -0500 Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.4]:36749 "EHLO smtp4-g21.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750869AbbKKNlf (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2015 08:41:35 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] net: ethernet: add driver for Aurora VLSI NB8800 Ethernet controller To: Eric Dumazet Cc: Mans Rullgard , David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <20151110.150403.1195107307226924000.davem@davemloft.net> <20151110.160615.1511568572619688788.davem@davemloft.net> <1447192280.17135.83.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> From: Mason Message-ID: <56434584.2090802@free.fr> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:41:24 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1447192280.17135.83.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/11/2015 22:51, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 21:21 +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote: > >> Even ixgbe uses napi_complete() while netdevice.h says one should >> "consider using napi_complete_done() instead." Did the author consider >> it and decide not to, or has the driver simply not been updated? > > napi_complete_done() is quite new, very few drivers use it. I was hoping to back-port this driver for my platform. Are the recent features used in the driver available in 4.1? What about 3.14? Regards.