patch-2.3.99-pre4 linux/drivers/net/8390.c

• Lines: 34
• Date: Sun Apr 2 15:38:53 2000
• Orig file: v2.3.99-pre3/linux/drivers/net/8390.c
• Orig date: Mon Mar 27 08:08:26 2000

diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.3.99-pre3/linux/drivers/net/8390.c linux/drivers/net/8390.c
@@ -114,8 +114,8 @@
 static void set_multicast_list(struct net_device *dev);
 static void do_set_multicast_list(struct net_device *dev);
 
-/**
- *	DOC: SMP and the 8390 setup.
+/*
+ *	SMP and the 8390 setup.
  *
  *	The 8390 isnt exactly designed to be multithreaded on RX/TX. There is
  *	a page register that controls bank and packet buffer access. We guard
@@ -407,13 +407,16 @@
 }
 
 /**
- * ei_interrupt - 
- * @irq:
- * @dev_id:
- * @regs:
+ * ei_interrupt - handle the interrupts from an 8390
+ * @irq: interrupt number
+ * @dev_id: a pointer to the net_device
+ * @regs: unused
  *
- * The typical workload of the driver:
- * Handle the ether interface interrupts.
+ * Handle the ether interface interrupts. We pull packets from
+ * the 8390 via the card specific functions and fire them at the networking
+ * stack. We also handle transmit completions and wake the transmit path if
+ * neccessary. We also update the counters and do other housekeeping as
+ * needed
  */
 
 void ei_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id, struct pt_regs * regs)