netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] sky2: manage irq better on single port card

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Date:	Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:51:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sky2: manage irq better on single port card

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:13:40 -0700

> Most sky2 hardware only has a single port, although some variations of the
> chip support two interfaces.  For the single port case, use the standard
> Ethernet driver convention of allocating IRQ when device is brought up
> rather than at probe time.
> 
> Also, change the error handling of dual port cards so that if second
> port can not be brought up, then just fail. No point in continuing, since
> the failure is most certainly because of out of memory.
> 
> The dual port sky2 device has a single irq and a single status ring,
> therefore it has a single NAPI object shared by both ports.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied, thanks.
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