Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5] net: ethernet: add driver for Aurora VLSI NB8800 Ethernet controller | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 2015 06:10:20 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 13:54 +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> writes: > > > 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? > > xmit_more was added in 3.18, napi_complete_done() in 3.19.
xmit_more is a hint, you can simply consider skb->xmit_more being replaced by 0 on old kernels if you want to backport.
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