From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Nolan Leake <nolan@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, Nolan Leake <nolan@sigbus.net>,
user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] um: Add a "ucast" ethernet transport.
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:10:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104210010.04410.richard@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303173986-21430-1-git-send-email-nolan@cumulusnetworks.com>
Am Dienstag 19 April 2011, 02:46:26 schrieb Nolan Leake:
> From: Nolan Leake <nolan@sigbus.net>
>
> The "ucast" transport is similar to the mcast transport (and, in fact,
> shares most of its code), only it uses UDP unicast to move packets.
>
> Obviously this is only useful for point-to-point connections between
> virtual ethernet devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nolan Leake <nolan@cumulusnetworks.com>
> ---
> Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt | 10 ++
> arch/um/drivers/Makefile | 4 +-
> arch/um/drivers/mcast.h | 24 ----
> arch/um/drivers/mcast_kern.c | 120 ------------------
> arch/um/drivers/mcast_user.c | 165 -------------------------
> arch/um/drivers/umcast.h | 27 ++++
> arch/um/drivers/umcast_kern.c | 188
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/um/drivers/umcast_user.c |
> 186 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 8 files changed, 413 insertions(+), 311
> deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 arch/um/drivers/mcast.h
> delete mode 100644 arch/um/drivers/mcast_kern.c
> delete mode 100644 arch/um/drivers/mcast_user.c
> create mode 100644 arch/um/drivers/umcast.h
> create mode 100644 arch/um/drivers/umcast_kern.c
> create mode 100644 arch/um/drivers/umcast_user.c
>
One small nit-pick, please use "git format-patch --find-renames ...".
Otherwise tools like git-blame will produce bad results.
Thanks,
//richard
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-12 23:51 [uml-devel] [PATCH] um: Add a "ucast" ethernet transport Nolan Leake
2011-04-13 10:58 ` Richard Weinberger
2011-04-19 0:16 ` Nolan Leake
2011-04-19 0:46 ` Nolan Leake
2011-04-20 22:10 ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
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