Re: [RFCv2 9/9] caif-xshm: Add CAIF driver for Shared memory forM7400

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Nov 29 2011 - 14:43:16 EST


From: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:39:10 +0100

> This patch introduces a caif shared memory link layer driver
> for ST-Ericsson's Thor M7400 LTE modem.
>
> M7400 uses a ring-buffer in shared memory for transporting data from the modem.
> Each ring-buffer element contains an array of caif frames. caif_xshm calls
> napi_schedule() when receiving notification about incoming data.
> The napi-poll function copies data from the ring-buffer to SKBs until
> ring-buffer is empty, or quota is exceeded.
>
> If transmit ring-buffer is full, it also uses napi for scheduling transmission
> of queued transmit buffer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I'm happy for this to go into the tree where the necessary xshm infrastructure
goes first:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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