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Message-Id: <20070607.020733.123970478.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:07:33 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: dev@...ru Cc: xemul@...nvz.org, containers@...ts.osdl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net, dev@...nvz.org Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel From: Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:14:29 +0400 > David Miller wrote: > > From: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org> > > Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:11:38 +0400 > > > > > >>Veth stands for Virtual ETHernet. It is a simple tunnel driver > >>that works at the link layer and looks like a pair of ethernet > >>devices interconnected with each other. > > > > > > I would suggest choosing a different name. > > > > 'veth' is also the name of the virtualized ethernet device > > found on IBM machines, driven by driver/net/ibmveth.[ch] > > AFAICS, ibmveth.c registers ethX devices, while this driver registers > vethX by default, so there is no much conflict IMHO. If that's the case, veth is fine with me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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