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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 5/7] CAN: Add virtual CAN netdevice driver
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:02:32 +0200
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Urs Thuermann wrote:
> This patch adds the virtual CAN bus (vcan) network driver.
> The vcan device is just a loopback device for CAN frames, no
> real CAN hardware is involved.


Is there a reason why you're still doing the "allocate n devices
on init" thing instead of using the rtnl_link API?