From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel? Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:29:25 -0700 Message-ID: <4AD65ED5.4030801@candelatech.com> References: <8B385E10-4BE2-48A6-BDE0-0AA1A603275E@ntop.org> <20091014203640.GB32317@ioremap.net> <4AD64251.50903@candelatech.com> <20091014.144923.112167161.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: zbr@ioremap.net, deri@ntop.org, shemminger@vyatta.com, brad.doctor@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:59700 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757300AbZJNXae (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:30:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20091014.144923.112167161.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/14/2009 02:49 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Ben Greear > 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 Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com