From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: [PATCH] forcedeth: don't poll NV event 36 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:44:06 +0100 Message-ID: <1229888646.3050.4.camel@johannes> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev , Ayaz Abdulla , Arjan van de Ven , Manfred Spraul To: "David S. Miller" Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:39486 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750782AbYLUToM (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:44:12 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Polling doesn't seem to be necessary on my hardware, at least I haven't seen any bad effects testing it a while. Remove the polling so the CPU doesn't have to wake up a hundred times per second. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- drivers/net/forcedeth.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/forcedeth.c 2008-12-21 13:01:14.000000000 +0100 +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/forcedeth.c 2008-12-21 13:02:24.000000000 +0100 @@ -6141,7 +6141,7 @@ static struct pci_device_id pci_tbl[] = }, { /* MCP79 Ethernet Controller */ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NVENET_36), - .driver_data = DEV_NEED_TIMERIRQ|DEV_NEED_LINKTIMER|DEV_HAS_LARGEDESC|DEV_HAS_CHECKSUM|DEV_HAS_HIGH_DMA|DEV_HAS_MSI|DEV_HAS_POWER_CNTRL|DEV_HAS_PAUSEFRAME_TX_V3|DEV_HAS_STATISTICS_V3|DEV_HAS_TEST_EXTENDED|DEV_HAS_MGMT_UNIT|DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR|DEV_HAS_COLLISION_FIX|DEV_NEED_TX_LIMIT|DEV_HAS_GEAR_MODE, + .driver_data = DEV_NEED_LINKTIMER|DEV_HAS_LARGEDESC|DEV_HAS_CHECKSUM|DEV_HAS_HIGH_DMA|DEV_HAS_MSI|DEV_HAS_POWER_CNTRL|DEV_HAS_PAUSEFRAME_TX_V3|DEV_HAS_STATISTICS_V3|DEV_HAS_TEST_EXTENDED|DEV_HAS_MGMT_UNIT|DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR|DEV_HAS_COLLISION_FIX|DEV_NEED_TX_LIMIT|DEV_HAS_GEAR_MODE, }, { /* MCP79 Ethernet Controller */ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NVENET_37),