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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, alan@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.7-rc3-mm2 2/5] via-velocity: uniformize use of OWNED_BY_NIC
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:02:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D3584A.9010009@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040618221142.A20210@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>

Francois Romieu wrote:
> Introduce velocity_give_rx_desc() to uniformize the use of OWNED_BY_NIC
> through the driver.
> 
> diff -puN drivers/net/via-velocity.c~via-velocity-30 drivers/net/via-velocity.c
> --- linux-2.6.7-rc3/drivers/net/via-velocity.c~via-velocity-30	2004-06-18 21:34:14.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.7-rc3-fr/drivers/net/via-velocity.c	2004-06-18 21:34:14.000000000 +0200
> @@ -465,6 +465,12 @@ static void velocity_init_cam_filter(str
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +static inline void velocity_give_rx_desc(struct rx_desc *rd)
> +{
> +	*(u32 *)&rd->rdesc0 = 0;
> +	rd->rdesc0.owner = cpu_to_le32(OWNED_BY_NIC);
> +}

The patch itself is OK, and I will merge, but I wonder:

isn't a wmb() needed perhaps?

	Jeff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-18 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-18 20:10 [PATCH 2.6.7-rc3-mm2 1/5] via-velocity: PCI ID move Francois Romieu
2004-06-18 20:11 ` [PATCH 2.6.7-rc3-mm2 2/5] via-velocity: uniformize use of OWNED_BY_NIC Francois Romieu
2004-06-18 20:13   ` [PATCH 2.6.7-rc3-mm2 3/5] via-velocity: velocity_receive_frame diets Francois Romieu
2004-06-18 20:14     ` [PATCH 2.6.7-rc3-mm2 4/5] via-velocity: Rx buffers allocation rework Francois Romieu
2004-06-18 20:16       ` [PATCH 2.6.7-rc3-mm2 5/5] via-velocity: Rx copybreak Francois Romieu
2004-06-18 20:34         ` Alan Cox
2004-06-18 21:02   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-06-18 21:42     ` [PATCH 2.6.7-rc3-mm2 2/5] via-velocity: uniformize use of OWNED_BY_NIC Francois Romieu
     [not found] ` <40D4AA3C.4090606@pobox.com>
2004-06-20  8:51   ` [PATCH 2.6.7-rc3-mm2 1/5] via-velocity: PCI ID move Francois Romieu

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