From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
pavlic@de.ibm.com, waldi@debian.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: alternative version of S/390 shared NIC support
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:59:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050117225946.GA11845@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1105885839.1097.573.camel@jzny.localdomain>
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:30:40AM -0500, jamal wrote:
> I could be missing something:
> Its almost like the "cards" in these drivers deserve to be their own
> netdevices to begin with. In other words the qeth approach itself seems
> to be a hack to begin with.
> Should be along the lines:
> --->Physical netdevice
> -->some demux code to select instance
> --> Virtual netdevice specific to OS instance
> ---> standard linux path
The problem is again that the OS instances don't talk to each
(well they can, but not in the driver), so your demux code would
have to move into the device firmware, and that'd probably change
the device <-> OS interface completely.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-17 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-16 11:54 [PATCH] ipv6: alternative version of S/390 shared NIC support Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-16 14:30 ` jamal
2005-01-17 22:59 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-01-17 23:11 ` jamal
2005-01-17 23:37 ` Christian Bornträger
2005-01-18 0:49 ` jamal
2005-01-18 15:53 ` Christian Bornträger
2005-01-18 18:25 ` Frank Pavlic
2005-01-19 13:49 ` jamal
2005-01-19 20:52 ` Christian Borntraeger
2005-01-19 21:32 ` Frank Pavlic
2005-01-20 4:47 ` jamal
2005-01-17 21:42 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-17 22:28 ` jamal
2005-01-17 22:42 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-17 22:54 ` jamal
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