From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>,
"Fischer, Anna" <anna.fischer@hp.com>,
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Edge Virtual Bridging <evb@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] macvlan: add tap device backend
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:00:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912141300.37063.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091212084112.GA8948@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Saturday 12 December 2009, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 06:52:00PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > This is a second prototype of a new interface into the network
> > stack, to eventually replace tun/tap and the bridge driver
> > in certain virtual machine setups. The code has changed
> > significantly, but the goals still remain.
>
> The idea looks pretty sound to me.
Thanks!
> > I'm posting this mainly to solicit feedback. Not sure how
> > chances for integration into 2.6.33 are, given that the merge
> > window is opening already.
>
> It's way too late for 2.6.33. But the earlier this becomes ready
> then the earlier it can go into linux-next.
Right. Since the code is basically working (I have two known bugs
I'm still working on) and people want to test it, what is the
best path? I could
a) keep my git tree for myself,
b) have it added to linux-next,
c) prepare a combined patch for net-next.git, or
d) have it added to drivers/staging
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-14 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-03 17:51 [RFC 0/2] macvtap, second try Arnd Bergmann
2009-12-03 17:51 ` [RFC 1/2] macvlan: Allow plugging in additional backends Arnd Bergmann
2009-12-14 12:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-12-03 17:52 ` [RFC] macvlan: add tap device backend Arnd Bergmann
2009-12-12 8:41 ` Herbert Xu
2009-12-14 12:00 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2009-12-14 12:38 ` David Miller
2009-12-14 12:53 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-12-14 15:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
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