netdev - Re: [PATCH]NET/KS8695: add support NAPI for Rx

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Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:43:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	figo1802@...il.com, dsilvers@...tec.co.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	vince@...tec.co.uk, ben@...tec.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH]NET/KS8695: add support NAPI for Rx

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:49:06 +0000

>> @@ -152,6 +156,10 @@ struct ks8695_priv {
>>  	enum ks8695_dtype dtype;
>>  	void __iomem *io_regs;
>>  
>> +	#ifdef KS8695NET_NAPI
>> +	struct napi_struct	napi;
>> +	#endif
>> +
> 
> NAPI is well-established and there should be no need to make it
> optional.  So far as I'm aware, all other drivers that had it as an
> option now use it unconditionally.

I absolutely refuse to apply this patch with the CPP conditional
present, if you convert to NAPI make it unconditional.
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