From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix new EMAC driver for NAPI changes Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:16:08 -0400 Message-ID: <47156258.5010800@garzik.org> References: <1192513250.19073.10.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@linux.foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Roland Dreier , linuxppc-dev list To: benh@kernel.crashing.org Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:47544 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932529AbXJQBQL (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:16:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1192513250.19073.10.camel@pasglop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > net: Fix new EMAC driver for NAPI changes > > This fixes the new EMAC driver for the NAPI updates. The previous patch > by Roland Dreier (already applied) to do that doesn't actually work. This > applies on top of it makes it work on my test Ebony machine. > > This patch depends on "net: Add __napi_sycnhronize() to sync with napi poll" > posted previously. > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt > --- > > The old EMAC driver does things a bit differently (doesn't do useful > locking :-) and seems to work with Roland patch. So I'm not going to > touch it unless somebody reports me that it has problems applied