From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xennet_get_drvinfo()
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:15:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CEEB5CA.6050704@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290680231.5514.2239.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
On 11/25/2010 02:17 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 20:56 +0000, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>> The fallback does cover the functionality ("driver: vif"), but
>>> "driver: xen-netfront" seems to be nicer, because that matches the
>>> module (driver) name.
>> Hm. Well, perhaps we should change the driver name? We can keep
>> "vif" as an alias.
> Whatever we do we shouldn't deliberately cause the xen.git 2.6.32 branch
> to deviate from what upstream does, if we think this field needs
> renaming lets do it on linux-netdev and backport the result.
Yes, exactly. I backported Ben's change so that .32 would be more like
later kernels; if the device name is useless (which it is), then we
should change it everywhere.
J
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-25 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-11 18:03 [PATCH] xennet_get_drvinfo() Laszlo Ersek
2010-11-11 18:50 ` Ian Campbell
2010-11-24 20:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-11-24 20:47 ` Laszlo Ersek
2010-11-24 20:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-11-24 21:37 ` VGA console low power mode in Xen Carsten Schiers
2010-11-25 10:56 ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-11-25 10:17 ` [PATCH] xennet_get_drvinfo() Ian Campbell
2010-11-25 19:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
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