On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Claudio Jeker
<cjeker@diehard.n-r-g.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 05:42:59PM +0100, Mike Belopuhov wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 17:06 +0100, Claudio Jeker wrote:
>> > This diff was made by oga@ some time ago -- I just fixed a few conflicts
>> > and I would really like to see this going in.
>> >
>> > netisr needs to be made a normal C function and not this madness it
>> > currently is. This is necessary to imporve the packet scheduling.
>> >
>> > Tested myself on i386, amd64, sparc64, sparc, alpha and hppa
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> i like the diff, but why not get rid of netisr_dispatch.h?
>
> I planned to this after this diff goes in. I did not want to change
> Owain's initial diff too much so I left that out for now.
>

i don't see a reason to wait, but ymmv.

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>> also i'm not sure, but maybe netisr.c copyright should be
>> attributed to berkeley as we're using their code directly?
>
> Are we?
>

actually, this is netbsd code in part.  i've traced it to the Eric
Haszlakiewicz's
<erh@netbsd> commit to sys/arch/sparc/sparc/intr.c [1] and he also introduced
netisr_dispatch.h include.  unfortunately he's not mentioned in any copyrights.
maybe our derived work is a bit different, so we shouldn't bother.

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> --
> :wq Claudio