From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sainath.grandhi@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mahesh@bandewar.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 0/7] Refactor macvtap to re-use tap functionality by other virtual intefaces
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 17:07:41 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170209.170741.524666868372427163.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1486589836-53858-1-git-send-email-sainath.grandhi@intel.com>
From: Sainath Grandhi <sainath.grandhi@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 13:37:09 -0800
> Tap character devices can be implemented on other virtual interfaces like
> ipvlan, similar to macvtap. Source code for tap functionality in macvtap
> can be re-used for this purpose.
>
> This patch series splits macvtap source into two modules, macvtap and tap.
> This patch series also includes a patch for implementing tap character
> device driver based on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap.
>
> These patches are tested on x86 platform.
I get rejects on patch #7 when I try to apply this to net-next,
please respin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-09 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-08 21:37 [PATCHv5 0/7] Refactor macvtap to re-use tap functionality by other virtual intefaces Sainath Grandhi
2017-02-08 21:37 ` [PATCHv5 1/7] tap: Refactoring macvtap.c Sainath Grandhi
2017-02-08 21:37 ` [PATCHv5 2/7] tap: Renaming tap related APIs, data structures, macros Sainath Grandhi
2017-02-08 21:37 ` [PATCHv5 3/7] tap: Tap character device creation/destroy API Sainath Grandhi
2017-02-08 21:37 ` [PATCHv5 4/7] tap: Abstract type of virtual interface from tap implementation Sainath Grandhi
2017-02-08 21:37 ` [PATCHv5 5/7] tap: Extending tap device create/destroy APIs Sainath Grandhi
2017-02-08 21:37 ` [PATCHv5 6/7] tap: tap as an independent module Sainath Grandhi
2017-02-08 21:37 ` [PATCHv5 7/7] ipvtap: IP-VLAN based tap driver Sainath Grandhi
2017-02-09 22:07 ` David Miller [this message]
2017-02-11 0:06 ` [PATCHv5 0/7] Refactor macvtap to re-use tap functionality by other virtual intefaces Grandhi, Sainath
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