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    SubjectRe: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3
    On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:06:28 -0700
    Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com> wrote:

    >
    > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:21 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    > > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:52:53AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
    > > > Let me put it bluntly. Any design that allows external code to run
    > > > in the kernel is not going to be accepted. Out of tree kernel modules are enough
    > > > of a pain already, why do you expect the developers to add another
    > > > interface.
    > >
    > > Exactly. Until our friends at VMware get this basic fact it's useless
    > > to continue arguing.
    > >
    > > Pankaj and Dmitry: you're fine to waste your time on this, but it's not
    > > going to go anywhere until you address that fundamental problem. The
    > > first thing you need to fix in your archicture is to integrate the VF
    > > function code into the kernel tree, and we can work from there.
    > >
    > > Please post patches doing this if you want to resume the discussion.
    > >
    > > _______________________________________________
    > > Pv-drivers mailing list
    > > Pv-drivers@vmware.com
    > > http://mailman2.vmware.com/mailman/listinfo/pv-drivers
    >
    >
    > As discussed, following is the patch to give you an idea
    > about implementation of NPA for vmxnet3 driver. Although the
    > patch is big, I have verified it with checkpatch.pl. It gave
    > 0 errors / warnings.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Matthieu Bucchaineri <matthieu@vmware.com>
    > Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>

    I think the concept won't fly.

    But you should really at least try running checkpatch to make sure
    the style conforms.


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