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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:49:52 -0700
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To: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:06:28PM -0700, Shreyas Bhatewara wrote:
>  drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c     | 1845
> +++++++++++++++++++--------------

Your patch is line-wrapped and can not be applied :(

Care to fix your email client?

One thing just jumped out at me when glancing at this:

> +static INLINE void
> +MoveMemory(void *dst,
> +		void *src,
> +		size_t length)
> +{
> +	size_t i;
> +	for (i = 0; i < length; ++i)
> +		((u8 *)dst)[i] = ((u8 *)src)[i];
> +}
> +
> +static INLINE void
> +ZeroMemory(void *memory,
> +		size_t length)
> +{
> +	size_t i;
> +	for (i = 0; i < length; ++i)
> +		((u8 *)memory)[i] = 0;
> +}

Is there some reason that our in-kernel functions that do this type of
logic are not working for you to require you to reimplement this?

thanks,

greg k-h