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>

diff --git a/drivers/net/macb.c b/drivers/net/macb.c
index e82aee41d77ed3c590bdc0ebe7f20f624c941a85..722265920da8c6341916a777a68b2cdaec33c222 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/macb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macb.c
@@ -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)