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Message-ID: <20070503151756.GA29629@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 16:17:56 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@...cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: netfront for review
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:33:43AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >Guess so. It defaults to flip. I simplified the rx_copy/flip module
> >parameter to a simple rx_mode=0/1, but this is preserved from the
> >original. My guess is that originally there was only flip, and copy was
> >added later.
>
> Yep, page flipping is the old (pre xen 3.0.3) way, copy was added (and
> made the default) later.
So can we please just rip out the obsolete code completely? There's
no point adding this code anymore.
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