> On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 05:57, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > the patch is attached.. is there any reason why the dummy device doesn't
> > want to do this stuff? I'm just submitting the patch as a request for
> > comments on why this isn't done anyway in the dummy
>
> If you want to talk to local systems why don't you use the netlink
> interface/ethertap stuff ?
because I'm unconscionably lazy, and the VAX simulator code is already
written to use pcap and I'd rather not rewrite it, why fix something when
a quick hack will suffice :-)
my long term plan is too ethertap the simulator alright.. but moving along
the Linux/VAX project is primary, fixing simulator isn't :-)
I'm just wondering why dummy just do that bit more.. design decision? or
nobodys ever bothered?
Dave.
-- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied@skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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