* Network driver questions
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@ 2008-04-29 13:21 ` Mile Davidovic
2008-04-29 13:42 ` Ben Hutchings
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From: Mile Davidovic @ 2008-04-29 13:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev
Hello,
We have some dedicated interface for connecting various external
devices (NOR, ONENAND, SMSC network adapter), similar to PCI except
one big difference/restriction:
we can not work in atomic context because low lever drivers have such
limitation.
I would like to write network driver (for SMSC chip for example) with
this restriction.
Do we have some network driver which also have suffer from similar restrictions?
Thanks in advance
Mile
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2008-04-29 13:21 ` Network driver questions Mile Davidovic
@ 2008-04-29 13:42 ` Ben Hutchings
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From: Ben Hutchings @ 2008-04-29 13:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mile Davidovic; +Cc: netdev
Mile Davidovic wrote:
> Hello,
> We have some dedicated interface for connecting various external
> devices (NOR, ONENAND, SMSC network adapter), similar to PCI except
> one big difference/restriction:
>
> we can not work in atomic context because low lever drivers have such
> limitation.
>
> I would like to write network driver (for SMSC chip for example) with
> this restriction.
>
> Do we have some network driver which also have suffer from similar restrictions?
USB network drivers are probably dealing with similar restrictions
(no synchronous access to device registers).
Ben.
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