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From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Add qemu_send_raw() to vlan.
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:28:21 +0100
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On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 13:11 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:05:35PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >   
> >> Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >>     
> >>> It gets packet without virtio header and adds it if needed.  Allows to
> >>> inject packets to vlan from outside. To send gracious arp for instance.
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> This is for announce_self(), no?  If so, upstream has the same problems?
> >>
> >>     
> > VNET_HDR is not upstream.
> >
> >   
> 
> Mark, how far are we from that?

We first need to add support for paired devices (i.e. a tap/virtio-net
pair) rather than trying to munge this stuff into the VLAN code.

Cheers,
Mark.