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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers/net/tile/: on-chip network drivers for the tile architecture
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 17:00:37 -0400
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> wrote:

> This change adds the first network driver for the tile architecture,
> supporting the on-chip XGBE and GBE shims.
>
> The infrastructure is present for the TILE-Gx networking drivers (another
> three source files in the new directory) but for now the the actual
> tilegx sources are waiting on releasing hardware to initial customers.
>
> Note that arch/tile/include/hv/* are "upstream" headers from the
> Tilera hypervisor and will probably benefit less from LKML review.
>

> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
> +typedef struct {
> + /** Byte offset of the next notify packet to be written: zero for the first
> + * packet on the queue, sizeof (netio_pkt_t) for the second packet on the
> + * queue, etc. */
> + volatile uint32_t __packet_write;
> +
> + /** Offset of the packet after the last valid packet (i.e., when any
> + * pointer is incremented to this value, it wraps back to zero). */
> + uint32_t __last_packet_plus_one;
> +}
> +__netio_packet_queue_t;

1. MUST not use volatile, see volatile-considered-harmful.txt
2. SHOULD use __u32 rather than uint32_t in kernel structures
3. MUST not introduce typedef's; use structures
4. SHOULD use proper kernel implementation

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