[PATCH 0/2] Two more pasemi_mac patches for 2.6.26

[Olof Johansson]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:12:30AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Olof Johansson wrote:
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> The below two patches go on top of the previous patches that were acked
>> by you but applied to pasemi.git for feed up through powerpc.git.
>>
>> One is a couple of fixes for various corner cases in the jumbo support
>> configuration. The second is addition of netpoll support, from Nate
>> Case.
>>
>> Review/ack would be appreciated, I'll feed them up the same path as the
>> other changes.
>
> ACK 1-2, though I would consider closely patch #2, whether you need 
> disable_irq() or spin_lock_irqsave() -- which is best for your specific 
> driver + platform?

I'm tempted to leave the disable/enable_irq() in there. It's certainly
heavier than doing cpu-side irq masking, but adding a spinlock to the
common interrupt path seems worse to me. I didn't think we considered
the polling to be a hot path anyway...


-Olof