[PATCH 1/2] ibm_newemac: Add Support for MAL Interrupt Coalescing

[prodyut hazarika]

Hi Ben,

>
> BTW. If you guys are ever going to do another change to MAL, please
> please plase, add the -one- major missing feature that's causing all the
> pain and complication in the current design: Add a per-channel interrupt
> masking option.
>
> The lack of ability to mask the interrupt per MAL channel is what forces
> us to create that fake netdev structure in order to share the napi
> device instance between all the EMACs in the system. This is very
> inefficient too. We would be able to make things run a lot smoother if
> we could just have a napi instance per EMAC, but for that, we need
> per-channel interrupt masking.
>

I will add a patch for the above as soon as I am done incorporating
your comments on the MAL coalescing support.

Thanks
Prodyut