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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:01:24 -0700 From: "Ayyappan Veeraiyan" <Ayyappan.Veeraiyan@...el.com> To: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org>, "Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: "Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, "Kok, Auke-jan H" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>, arjan@...ux.intel.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: Introduce new 10GbE driver for Intel 82598 based PCI Express adapters... On 7/2/07, Veeraiyan, Ayyappan <ayyappan.veeraiyan@...el.com> wrote: > On 7/2/07, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote: > The submitted driver code supports single queue version in case of MSIX > allocation failures... As I said in the other mail, I feel, restricting > to single Rx queue in NAPI mode is better approach till Stephen's and > DaveM' work of separating NAPI from netdevice is done.. > > > Lots of drivers where the interface name is assigned after request_irq > > just use an internal name, e.g. ixgbeX in the case of this driver. > > Actually looking closer, we don't need to worry about interface name change after request_irq. This driver calls request_irq only on interface up. If interface is up, kernel (dev.c) doesn't allow the name change. So it is a non-issue for this driver. Ayyappan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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