Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtyl...@cogentembedded.com> : > On 4/23/2015 1:08 PM, Jia-Ju Bai wrote: [...] > >I also find many drivers do not use these managed APIs, especially in > >ethernet > >card drivers (like e100, r8169). Is it possible to change them? > > Patches welcome. :-)
I respectfully disagree. If someone believes basic resouce management to be too hard or error-prone to handle, he should imvho seriously rise the bar and reconsider the way he wants to contribute to the kernel. I may hope he who reads e100.c to think about DMA api, bql or rx ring holes avoidance to quote a few ones. Managed API ? Mildly... -- Ueimor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
