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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: add tap device backend
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:20:33 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Thu,  6 Aug 2009 21:50:28 +0000

> This is a first prototype of a new interface into the network
> stack, to eventually replace tun/tap and the bridge driver
> in certain virtual machine setups.

I don't know enough to say how good a solution this is for
the problem, but I certainly like this driver for it's
utter simplicity and minimalness.