Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

[Michal Schmidt <xschmi00@stud.feec.vutbr.cz>]

Julien Wajsberg wrote:
> Good point... I just tried, but forcedeth doesn't support netpoll. If
> you have a pointer, I could try to implement it ;-)

Can you try the attached patch for forcedeth?
It compiles for me, but I don't have nForce hardware to test it.

Michal

--- linux-2.6.12-rc1/drivers/net/forcedeth.c.orig	2005-03-26 15:00:12.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc1/drivers/net/forcedeth.c	2005-03-26 15:08:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -1480,6 +1480,13 @@ static void nv_do_nic_poll(unsigned long
 	enable_irq(dev->irq);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
+static void nv_poll_controller(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	nv_do_nic_poll((long) dev);
+}
+#endif
+
 static void nv_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_drvinfo *info)
 {
 	struct fe_priv *np = get_nvpriv(dev);
@@ -1962,6 +1969,9 @@ static int __devinit nv_probe(struct pci
 	dev->get_stats = nv_get_stats;
 	dev->change_mtu = nv_change_mtu;
 	dev->set_multicast_list = nv_set_multicast;
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
+	dev->poll_controller = nv_poll_controller;
+#endif
 	SET_ETHTOOL_OPS(dev, &ops);
 	dev->tx_timeout = nv_tx_timeout;
 	dev->watchdog_timeo = NV_WATCHDOG_TIMEO;