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SubjectRe: Uniform Driver Interface (UDI)
FromJes Sorensen <>
Date01 Sep 1998 17:18:09 +0200
>>>>> "David" == David Hollister <dhollist@Iphase.COM> writes:

David> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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David> Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>  Its going to be very interesting to see how they will solve the
>> mbuf<->skbuff conversion in a reasonable way ;-)

David> There is no mbuf to skbuff conversion.  UDI will use a generic
David> buffer descriptor I'm sure.  They'll have to convert between
David> skbuffs and a UDI buffer, but that's a no brainer after doing
David> it with mbufs!  Anyway, mbufs and skbuffs aren't really all
David> that dis-similar.

Conversion is going to be a pain no matter what they come up with and
copying data is not an issue. What I was trying to point out is that
most commercial UNIXes use mbufs - we don't.

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Could you disable this junk please? Its very annoying for people not
reading email with Netscape.

Jes

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