netdev - Re: Please pull 'adm8211' branch of wireless-2.6

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Date:	Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:00:37 -0400
From:	Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, linville@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please pull 'adm8211' branch of wireless-2.6

On Sunday 16 September 2007 00:50, David Miller wrote:
> From: Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>
> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:47:40 -0400
>
> > Huh? How does a driver use NAPI if it can't pass a struct net_device?
>
> It is now managed by a struct napi_struct which you can embed into any
> object you like.
>
> NAPI is now totally disconnected from the network device structure.
> This was necessary for proper support of multi-queue cards.
Ah, very nice.

-Michael Wu

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