Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] um: Add a "ucast" ethernet transport

[Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch 13 April 2011, 01:51:33 schrieb Nolan Leake:
> 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/mcast.h                   |    7 ++-
>  arch/um/drivers/mcast_kern.c              |   82 +++++++++++++++++++--
>  arch/um/drivers/mcast_user.c              |  113
> +++++++++++++++++------------ 4 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 55
> deletions(-)
> 

Sorry, your mailer screwed the patch.
Please use git send-email.

With your patch drivers/mcast* would contain unicast stuff.
This is a bit confusing.
Either rename the mcast files or put everything which have mcast 
and ucast in common into a separate file.

Are you using this patch in a production environment?

Thanks,
//richard

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