From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: sfc: Add driverlink API to support virtual NIC drivers Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:45:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20081116.004557.210684346.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: bhutchings@solarflare.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43656 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751274AbYKPIp5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:45:57 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I'm not applying this patch, it is just a gateway for proprietary extensions to the driver. The fact that it allows any module to hook into the driver and decide how to handle every TX or RX frame basically makes this change a non-starter. Many many years ago, various vendor drivers tried to do something similar, so that their proprietary bonding modules could work, and instead we improved the Linux bonding driver to have feature parity with whatever those guys were offering.