From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert.uytterhoe...@sonycom.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:00:05 +0100 (CET)
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > This adds an init_dummy_netdev() function that gets a network device > > structure (allocation and lifetime entirely under caller's control) and > > initialize the minimum amount of fields so it can be used to schedule > > NAPI polls without registering a full blown interface. This is to be > > used by drivers that need to tie several hardware interfaces to a single > > NAPI poll scheduler due to HW limitations. > > > > It also updates the ibm_newemac driver to use that, this fixing the > > oops on 2.6.29 due to passing NULL as "dev" to netif_napi_add() > > > > Symbol is exported GPL only a I don't think we want binary drivers doing > > that sort of acrobatics (if we want them at all). > > > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> > > Thanks, this fixed my Sequoia! > > Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert.uytterhoe...@sonycom.com> Applied, thanks everyone. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
