netdev - Re: Pull request: sfc-next 2013-08-30

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Date:	Sat, 31 Aug 2013 22:28:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: Pull request: sfc-next 2013-08-30

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 04:36:34 +0100

> 1. A little more refactoring.
> 2. Remove the unnecessary use of atomic_t that you pointed out.
> 3. Add support for starting or queueing firmware requests from atomic
> context.
> 4. Add hwmon support for additional sensors found on some new boards.
> 5. Add support for the EF10 controller architecture, the SFC9100 family
> and specifically the SFC9120 controller.

Pulled, thanks Ben.

Maybe you can get away with just doing "atomic_inc_return()" for the
MCDI sequence number bump and avoid the iface lock in those paths?

Just an idea.
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