On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 18:36 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 08:04 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > net: Add __napi_synchronize() to sync with napi poll > > > > The EMAC driver which needs to handle multiple devices with one > > NAPI instance implements its own per-channel disable bit. However, > > when setting such a bit, it needs to synchronize with the poller > > (that is make sure that any pending poller instance has completed, > > or is started late enough to see that disable bit). > > > > This implements a low level __napi_synchronize() function to acheive > > that. The underscores are to emphasis the low level aspect of it and > > to discourage driver writers who don't know what they are doing to > > use it (to please DaveM :-) > > Erm.. your commit log calls it __napi_synchronize still.
The commit is a mistake, I sent a patch to rename it, or did I miss something ? Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
