netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/4] netxen: improve msi support

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Message-ID: <47DE5F38.5040106@garzik.org>
Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:08:24 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@...xen.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] netxen: improve msi support

Dhananjay Phadke wrote:
> Recent netxen firmware has new scheme of generating MSI interrupts, it
> raises interrupt and blocks itself, waiting for driver to unmask. This
> reduces chance of spurious interrupts.
> 
> The driver will be able to deal with older firmware as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@...xen.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic.h          |    1 +
>  drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_hdr.h      |   12 ++++++
>  drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_hw.c       |    2 +
>  drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c     |    2 +
>  drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c     |   56 ++++++++++++-----------------
>  drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_phan_reg.h |    3 ++
>  6 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

ACK patches 1-4, but does not apply to #upstream-fixes (nor davem's net-2.6)


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