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authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2009-05-04 11:08:41 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-05-04 11:08:41 -0700
commit6e8cf5c069c6cb7b316e9b1715eac38873dd5cab (patch)
treefdbe28f7cf062c7e2dfaf4bdbb3e55345cf4bf60 /drivers
parent255cac91c3c9ce7dca7713b93ab03c75b7902e0e (diff)
macb: Add support of the netpoll API
With this patch in place, I'm successfully able to use the netconsole mechanism with the Calao USB-A9263 board, which uses the AT91SAM9263 CPU, which in terms of Ethernet controller is supported by the macb driver. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> [haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com: disable_irq() -> local_irq_save()] [haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com: convert to net_device_ops] Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/macb.c18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/macb.c b/drivers/net/macb.c
index e82aee41d77..722265920da 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macb.c
@@ -599,6 +599,21 @@ static irqreturn_t macb_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
return IRQ_HANDLED;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
+/*
+ * Polling receive - used by netconsole and other diagnostic tools
+ * to allow network i/o with interrupts disabled.
+ */
+static void macb_poll_controller(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ macb_interrupt(dev->irq, dev);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+#endif
+
static int macb_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
{
struct macb *bp = netdev_priv(dev);
@@ -1094,6 +1109,9 @@ static const struct net_device_ops macb_netdev_ops = {
.ndo_validate_addr = eth_validate_addr,
.ndo_change_mtu = eth_change_mtu,
.ndo_set_mac_address = eth_mac_addr,
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
+ .ndo_poll_controller = macb_poll_controller,
+#endif
};
static int __init macb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)