[PATCH] net: Fix new EMAC driver for NAPI changes

Jeff Garzik jeff at garzik.org
Wed Oct 17 11:16:08 EST 2007


Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> net: Fix new EMAC driver for NAPI changes
> 
> This fixes the new EMAC driver for the NAPI updates. The previous patch
> by Roland Dreier (already applied) to do that doesn't actually work. This
> applies on top of it makes it work on my test Ebony machine.
> 
> This patch depends on "net: Add __napi_sycnhronize() to sync with napi poll"
> posted previously.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
> 
> The old EMAC driver does things a bit differently (doesn't do useful
> locking :-) and seems to work with Roland patch. So I'm not going to
> touch it unless somebody reports me that it has problems

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