netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] skge: handle irq better on single port card

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Date:	Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:41:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] skge: handle irq better on single port card

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:25:23 -0700

> Most boards with SysKonnect/Marvell Ethernet have only a single port.
> For the single port case, use the standard Ethernet driver convention
> of allocating IRQ when device is brought up rather than at probe time.
> 
> This patch also adds some additional read after writes to avoid any
> PCI posting problems when setting the IRQ mask.
> 
> The error handling of dual port cards is also changed.  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.
> 
> It is worth noting that the dual port skge device has a single irq but two
> seperate status rings and therefore has two NAPI objects, one for
> each port.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied.
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