From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@telecomint.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] [NET] uli526x: add support for netpoll
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 06:21:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48354940.40100@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080516190451.GA20860@polina.dev.rtsoft.ru>
Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> This patch adds netpoll support for the uli526x ethernet driver --
> simply call the interrupt handler for polling.
>
> To do this without disable_irq()/enable_irq() pair we should fully
> protect the handler. Luckily, it's already using irqsave spinlock,
> the only unprotected place is interrupts re-enabling write. It was
> safe to re-enable interrupts without holding the spinlock, but with
> netpoll possibility now it doesn't seem so.
>
> Patch was tested using netconsole and KGDBoE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-22 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-15 15:12 [PATCH] [NET] uli526x: add support for netpoll Anton Vorontsov
2008-05-15 20:51 ` Florian Fainelli
2008-05-16 11:13 ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-05-16 19:04 ` [PATCH v2] " Anton Vorontsov
2008-05-22 10:21 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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