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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: zbr@ioremap.net, deri@ntop.org, shemminger@vyatta.com,
	brad.doctor@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:29:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD65ED5.4030801@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091014.144923.112167161.davem@davemloft.net>

On 10/14/2009 02:49 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:27:45 -0700
>
>> Maybe something similar to the attached patch?
>
> This is not something I'm interested in applying.
>
> It makes implementing proprietary complete networking stacks
> for Linux way too easy.
 >
> Instead I'd rather have a GPL exported function that allows indication
> of consumption somehow.

This would mean one hard-coded hook for every application that wanted
this feature, or is there some way to have a gpl_ptype_all?

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-14 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-14 14:33 PF_RING: Include in main line kernel? Brad Doctor
2009-10-14 16:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-10-14 17:02   ` Brad Doctor
2009-10-14 19:33     ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-10-14 20:17       ` Luca Deri
2009-10-14 20:27         ` David Miller
2009-10-15  0:25           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-14 20:36         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-10-14 21:27           ` Ben Greear
2009-10-14 21:34             ` Luca Deri
2009-10-14 21:49             ` David Miller
2009-10-14 23:29               ` Ben Greear [this message]
2009-10-15  7:02               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-10-15  7:22                 ` David Miller
2009-10-15 16:33                 ` Ben Greear
2009-10-18 12:45                   ` Harald Welte
2009-10-18 12:43               ` Harald Welte
2009-10-18 14:18                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-10-14 16:46 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-10-14 17:02   ` Brad Doctor
2009-10-14 17:18     ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-10-18 12:47   ` [OT] ntop / GPL (was Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?) Harald Welte
2009-10-19  5:55     ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-10-19  7:12       ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-10-14 18:19 ` PF_RING: Include in main line kernel? Brent Cook
2009-10-14 19:54   ` Luca Deri
2009-10-14 20:15     ` David Miller
2009-10-14 20:26       ` Luca Deri
2009-10-14 20:29         ` David Miller
2009-10-14 20:34           ` Luca Deri
2009-10-14 20:50             ` Mark Smith
2009-10-18 12:56             ` Harald Welte
2009-10-18 12:50     ` Harald Welte
2009-10-18 14:50       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-10-15  7:35 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-10-18 12:38 ` Harald Welte
2009-10-18 17:37   ` Luca Deri

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