From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: pktgen patch available for perusal. Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:34:37 -0800 Message-ID: <454B6F9D.8030300@candelatech.com> References: <45468F2E.4060809@candelatech.com> <17736.54766.657083.873206@robur.slu.se> <4548F166.1020001@candelatech.com> <17739.9326.620495.394705@robur.slu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: NetDev Return-path: Received: from ns2.lanforge.com ([66.165.47.211]:5760 "EHLO ns2.lanforge.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753356AbWKCQdQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Nov 2006 11:33:16 -0500 To: Robert Olsson In-Reply-To: <17739.9326.620495.394705@robur.slu.se> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Robert Olsson wrote: > Ben Greear writes: > > > I'd be thrilled to have the receive logic go into pktgen, even if it was #if 0 with a comment > > showing how to patch dev.c to get it working. It would make my out-of-tree patch smaller > > and should help others who are doing research and driver development... > > > Just an idea... RX part is pretty separate from TX. How about if we keep the > this code in a small seprate optional module? It can developed into some general > RX probe. > It requires a hook in dev.c, or at least that is the only way I can think to implement it. I don't think that hook is going to be allowed into the kernel, so the best I was hoping for was to have the code in pktgen with #if 0 and let users patch their kernel to add the hook... Ben > Cheers. > --ro > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com