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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>
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Thomas Petazzoni 2009-05-04 11:08:41 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 255cac91c3
commit 6e8cf5c069
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drivers/net/macb.c
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@ -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)