netdev - Re: [PATCH v5] net: ethernet: add driver for Aurora VLSI NB8800 Ethernet controller

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Date:	Wed, 11 Nov 2015 06:06:12 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Mason <slash.tmp@...e.fr>
Cc:	Mans Rullgard <mans@...sr.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] net: ethernet: add driver for Aurora VLSI NB8800
 Ethernet controller

On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 14:41 +0100, Mason wrote:
> On 10/11/2015 22:51, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 21:21 +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > 
> >> Even ixgbe uses napi_complete() while netdevice.h says one should
> >> "consider using napi_complete_done() instead."  Did the author consider
> >> it and decide not to, or has the driver simply not been updated?
> > 
> > napi_complete_done() is quite new, very few drivers use it.
> 
> I was hoping to back-port this driver for my platform. Are the recent
> features used in the driver available in 4.1? What about 3.14?

Sure, this is all available 

napi_complete_done() can be backported on old kernels as a
napi_complete() 


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