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author | Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2008-12-08 01:14:16 -0800 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-12-08 01:14:16 -0800 |
commit | b74ca3a896b9ab5f952bc440154758e708c48884 (patch) | |
tree | cc67fc67ddd6ac20e25b1060ab633a4d5c4e6ee8 /drivers/net/via-rhine.c | |
parent | 5a001a070e032bea1be563b13ebf9819cd5e54d4 (diff) | |
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netdevice: Kill netdev->priv
This is the last shoot of this series.
After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing
"priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs.
Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly.
If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv()
instead.
If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use
netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private
data.
Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/via-rhine.c')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/via-rhine.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/via-rhine.c b/drivers/net/via-rhine.c index 93b74b7..8d405c8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/via-rhine.c +++ b/drivers/net/via-rhine.c @@ -191,12 +191,13 @@ IIId. Synchronization The driver runs as two independent, single-threaded flows of control. One is the send-packet routine, which enforces single-threaded use by the -dev->priv->lock spinlock. The other thread is the interrupt handler, which -is single threaded by the hardware and interrupt handling software. +netdev_priv(dev)->lock spinlock. The other thread is the interrupt handler, +which is single threaded by the hardware and interrupt handling software. The send packet thread has partial control over the Tx ring. It locks the -dev->priv->lock whenever it's queuing a Tx packet. If the next slot in the ring -is not available it stops the transmit queue by calling netif_stop_queue. +netdev_priv(dev)->lock whenever it's queuing a Tx packet. If the next slot in +the ring is not available it stops the transmit queue by +calling netif_stop_queue. The interrupt handler has exclusive control over the Rx ring and records stats from the Tx ring. After reaping the stats, it marks the Tx queue entry as |