netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Fix new EMAC driver for NAPI changes

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Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:16:08 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
CC:	shemminger@...ux.foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix new EMAC driver for NAPI changes

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 <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> ---
> 
> 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

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