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Re: [PATCH 2.6] Add NAPI support to sungem.c

To: Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Add NAPI support to sungem.c
From: Eric Lemoine <eric.lemoine@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:50:28 +0200
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20040914200238.GM8434@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org>
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Reply-to: Eric Lemoine <eric.lemoine@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:02:38 +0200, Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:43:15PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > Harald.... check current BK it has NAPI support added
> > to the sungem.c driver already, it was written by Eric Lemoine
> > with some fixes by myself and benh :-)
> 
> Gnah, I hate duplicated efforts.  Well, I learned a bit about NIC
> drivers, though :(

Your patch has the netpoll bits while current BK does not.

> Before I start NAPI-enabling natsemi.c (and again duplicate work):  Do
> you know of anybody working on this yet?

I'm not ;-)

PS: If you happened to experiment with the NAPIfied SunGEM driver on
your setup, could you please share the data. Thx.

-- 
Eric

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