From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Petr Konecny <pekon@fi.muni.cz>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: netpoll with xircom_cb
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:54:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041014205440.GY5414@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qww8yaarph5.fsf@decibel.fi.muni.cz>
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:41:10AM +0200, Petr Konecny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a headless computer with xircom pcmcia card and needed netconsole
> on it. After looking around in other drivers I concocted this patch. It
> survived light testing. I have no documentation for the hw, so it maybe
> totally bogus. What do you think ?
Looks good to me.
In general, this generic approach is fine. We can sometimes avoid the
heavyweight IRQ manipulation by using internal driver locking, but
this is generally not a performance-critical path.
Jeff, did you take this one?
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-14 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-14 2:41 PATCH: netpoll with xircom_cb Petr Konecny
2004-10-14 20:54 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2004-10-15 3:25 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] <qwwd5zmrrpt.fsf@decibel.fi.muni.cz>
[not found] ` <20041014124140.GI2646@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
2004-10-14 14:40 ` Petr Konecny
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