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

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>
Cc: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] net: ethernet: add driver for Aurora VLSI NB8800 Ethernet controller
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 06:06:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1447250772.17135.101.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56434584.2090802@free.fr>

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()