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

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Nov 11 2015 - 09:06:20 EST


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, MÃns RullgÃrd 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()


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