NAPI and libdde_linux26_net

Björn Döbel doebel at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
Mon Apr 13 16:56:03 CEST 2009


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Hey,

> Sorry, I'm not guru in Linux Kernel API. I drew a conclusion from the
> following:
> I tried to use newer e1000 driver with ORe.
> To do so I overwrote source files for e1000 driver with the newer ones from
> 2.6.28.7.
> When I tried to compile, I got error: unknown 'napi_struct' type.
> So I decided that NAPI is not supported.

Current DDE is based on Linux 2.6.20.19, so don't expect things from
later Linux kernels to work properly.

napi_struct as a new way of handling NAPI seems to have been introduced
in a later version (quick google indicates something like 2.6.24).

Bjoern
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