From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25.3 1/5] atl1e: Atheros L1E Gigabit Ethernet driver Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:55:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080625.225550.199765051.davem@davemloft.net> References: <72981EBCFD196144B7C6999B9FC34A9A3EE603B863@SHEXMB-01.global.atheros.com> <20080625224829.3c6f4789@extreme> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jie.Yang@Atheros.com, jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:58046 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752209AbYFZFzu (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:55:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080625224829.3c6f4789@extreme> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:48:29 -0700 > I would prefer that the driver be NAPI only, because configuration > choices are hard for users and distribution to make correct > choice. Plus it means two choices for your QA to test. I agree with Stephen. It's absolutely to provide a non-NAPI option, please just remove the option and the conditionals from the code.