From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dev@sw.ru
Cc: xemul@openvz.org, containers@lists.osdl.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, dev@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:07:33 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070607.020733.123970478.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4667BE65.2060307@sw.ru>
From: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:14:29 +0400
> David Miller wrote:
> > From: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
> > Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:11:38 +0400
> >
> >
> >>Veth stands for Virtual ETHernet. It is a simple tunnel driver
> >>that works at the link layer and looks like a pair of ethernet
> >>devices interconnected with each other.
> >
> >
> > I would suggest choosing a different name.
> >
> > 'veth' is also the name of the virtualized ethernet device
> > found on IBM machines, driven by driver/net/ibmveth.[ch]
>
> AFAICS, ibmveth.c registers ethX devices, while this driver registers
> vethX by default, so there is no much conflict IMHO.
If that's the case, veth is fine with me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-07 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-06 15:11 [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-06 15:17 ` [PATCH] Module for ip utility to support veth device Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-06 15:18 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-06 15:28 ` [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel Patrick McHardy
2007-06-07 8:09 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 9:29 ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-06-07 9:51 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 14:05 ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-06-07 14:23 ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-06-07 14:42 ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-06-07 15:33 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 15:25 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 15:44 ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-06-11 11:39 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-13 9:24 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-13 11:12 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-13 16:02 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-13 15:37 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-06 15:39 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-06 16:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-06 19:47 ` David Miller
2007-06-06 20:38 ` [Devel] " Daniel Lezcano
2007-06-06 20:49 ` David Miller
2007-06-07 8:14 ` Kirill Korotaev
2007-06-07 9:07 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-06-07 9:30 ` Benjamin Thery
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