Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:02:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:02:44 -0400 Received: from shell.cyberus.ca ([209.195.95.7]:46778 "EHLO shell.cyberus.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:02:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:00:05 -0400 (EDT) From: jamal To: Ion Badulescu cc: Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 In-Reply-To: <200110041855.f94ItSH11421@buggy.badula.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 07:54:19 -0400 (EDT), jamal wrote: > > > Has nothing to do with specific hardware although i see your point. > > send me an eepro and i'll at least add hardware flow control for you. > > The API is simple, its up to the driver maintainers to use. This > > discussion is good to make people aware of those drivers. > > A bit of documentation for the hardware flow control API would help as > well. The API might be fine and dandy, but if all you have is a couple of > modified drivers -- some of which are not even in the standard kernel -- > then you can bet not many driver writers are going to even be aware of it, > let alone care to implement it. I could write a small HOWTO at least for HWFLOWCONTROL since that doesnt need anything fancy. > > For instance: in 2.2.19, the help text for CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL says > only tulip supports it in the standard kernel -- yet I can't find that > support anywhere in drivers/net/*.c, tulip.c included. > Thats dated. It means a doc is needed. > In 2.4.10 tulip finally supports it (and I'm definitely going to take a > closer look), but that's about it. And tulip is definitely the wrong > example to pick if you want a nice and clean model for your driver. > I like the tulip code. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/