netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] [NET] uli526x: add support for netpoll

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Date:	Thu, 22 May 2008 06:21:52 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
To:	avorontsov@...mvista.com
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...ecomint.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] [NET] uli526x: add support for netpoll

Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> This patch adds netpoll support for the uli526x ethernet driver --
> simply call the interrupt handler for polling.
> 
> To do this without disable_irq()/enable_irq() pair we should fully
> protect the handler. Luckily, it's already using irqsave spinlock,
> the only unprotected place is interrupts re-enabling write. It was
> safe to re-enable interrupts without holding the spinlock, but with
> netpoll possibility now it doesn't seem so.
> 
> Patch was tested using netconsole and KGDBoE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>

applied


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