From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752535AbbKKOGR (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:06:17 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f50.google.com ([209.85.220.50]:33012 "EHLO mail-pa0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750961AbbKKOGP (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:06:15 -0500 Message-ID: <1447250772.17135.101.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] net: ethernet: add driver for Aurora VLSI NB8800 Ethernet controller From: Eric Dumazet To: Mason Cc: Mans Rullgard , David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 06:06:12 -0800 In-Reply-To: <56434584.2090802@free.fr> References: <20151110.150403.1195107307226924000.davem@davemloft.net> <20151110.160615.1511568572619688788.davem@davemloft.net> <1447192280.17135.83.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> <56434584.2090802@free.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4-0ubuntu2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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()