Messages in this thread | | | From | Mikko.Jaakkola@nokia ... | Subject | Asynchronous notifications from networking device drivers | Date | Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:07:35 +0300 |
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Hello, What's the best way to get proprietary notifications from networking device drivers? I need to get notification data through ioct-interface but I need some way to signal that data is ready. The only way I can think of is to put pending request from user-mode to kernel-mode and release it from driver every time when something happens. Can anybody think of anything else?
Another question is that what are being disabled when hard_start_xmit is being called (bottom-halves, softirq, ...). In 2.2.16 it looks like bottom_halves are disabled during the call. The reason why I'm asking this is that: if network adapter A receives data and sends it to networking stack, is it possible that stack routes the data to network adapter B during the same bottom-half? Best Regards, Mikko - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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