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From: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 5/7] CAN: Add virtual CAN netdevice driver
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:42:13 +0200
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Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
> BTW, in case the loopback device is required for normal
> operation it might make sense to create *one* device by
> default, but four identical devices seems a bit extreme.
>
>   

As i wrote before CAN addressing consists of CAN-Identifiers and the
used interface. The use of four vcan's is definitely a usual case!

Oliver