Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

* Christoph Hellwig ([email protected]) wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:00:34AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > The network device frontend driver allows the kernel to access network
> > devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical
> > network device driver.
> 
> Please don't add procfs code to new network drivers.  Especially if it's oopsable
> like the code in this driver by simple device renaming.

Agreed, no reason to keep the cruft around.  I thought I had a comment
of the sort in there.

thanks,
-chris
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

References:
- [RFC PATCH 00/35] Xen i386 paravirtualization support
  - From: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
- [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.
  - From: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
- Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.
  - From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

Prev by Date: Re: [PATCH] Fix console utf8 composing
Next by Date: Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.
Previous by thread: Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.
Next by thread: Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread

[Index of Archives] [Kernel Newbies] [Netfilter] [Bugtraq] [Photo] [Stuff] [Gimp] [Yosemite News] [MIPS Linux] [ARM Linux] [Linux Security] [Linux RAID] [Video 4 Linux] [Linux for the blind] [Linux Resources]