Re: [PATCH] macb: Add support of the netpoll API

David Miller
2009-04-21T08:54:21Z

From: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:57:07 +0200

> From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
>
> With this patch in place, I'm successfully able to use the netconsole
> mechanism with the Calao USB-A9263 board, which uses the AT91SAM9263
> CPU, which in terms of Ethernet controller is supported by the macb
> driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> [haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com: disable_irq() -> local_irq_save()]
> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>

This patch does not apply to the current tree.

The macb driver has been converted over to netdev_ops, and therefore
these accesses to ->poll_controller are not correct.