From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: alternative version of S/390 shared NIC support Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:42:59 -0800 Message-ID: <20050117144259.7882e629.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20050116115431.GA13617@lst.de> <20050117134228.5a6002a0.davem@davemloft.net> <1106000914.1046.4.camel@jzny.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hch@lst.de, pavlic@de.ibm.com, waldi@debian.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: hadi@cyberus.ca In-Reply-To: <1106000914.1046.4.camel@jzny.localdomain> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 17 Jan 2005 17:28:34 -0500 jamal wrote: > Refer to my comments: > any device that ends up having to do that is a hack in my opinion;-> > The dev_id maybe useful for other things. the qeth driver needs fixing > so it can stack the per-os instance interfaces. I agree but... At least Christian's patch is 100 times cleaner than what IBM has proposed. People have been "talking" endlessly about providing a clean version of the infrastructure necessary to support what qeth needs for EUI64 generation, but everyone did nothing but talk and suggest. Christian backed up his "talk" with "code", and since his changes aren't that unreasonable they go in :-)