netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/8] bnx2: Optimize fast-path tx and rx work.

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:41:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mchan@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, benli@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] bnx2: Optimize fast-path tx and rx work.

From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:25:27 -0700

> Add hw_tx_cons_ptr and hw_rx_cons_ptr to speed up the retreival of
> the tx and rx consumer index, since the MSI-X and default status
> blocks have different structures.
> 
> Combine status_blk and status_blk_msix into a union.  We'll only use
> one type of status block for each vector.
> 
> Separate the code to detect more rx and tx work from the code to
> detect link related work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Li <benli@...adcom.com>

This adds a new warning:

drivers/net/bnx2.c: In function ‘bnx2_poll_link’:
drivers/net/bnx2.c:3164: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void

So I changed bnx2_poll_link() to return 'void' when
checking this in.