netdev - Re: Patch to add M3Pnet Driver

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Message-ID: <4836F40C.804@mips.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 May 2008 18:42:52 +0200
From:	"Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@...s.com>
To:	jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: Patch to add M3Pnet Driver

Guysm

Yet another network driver is probably not what the world needs most,
but I had to write one for MIPS Linux this month that was a little
different from any of the others.  It's a driver that impersonates
an ethernet interface whilst actually passing packets in memory between
different processors running different OS images in a shared memory
environment, something that actually happens in embedded systems.
I call it M3P (pronounced "mep"), for MIPS Memory Message Passing,
but if I didn't think it could be adapted to non-MIPS based and indeed
heterogeneous systems, I wouldn't trouble you with it.  I note that
the "mipsnet" driver, which is limited in its function to running
on a MIPS simulator, made it in, so I figured I'd at least ask if
it's something that could be absorbed into the network driver mass,
the better for other folks to improve on it - there are a lot of
enhancements I'd like to make, some of which are described in the
comments, but it's not clear that I'll have time to make them any
time soon.  A familiar refrain, I suppose.  Anyway, the patch is
attached.  See also Ralf's ack below.

			Regards,

			Kevin K.

Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:45:45AM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
>> From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@...s.com>
>> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 00:45:45 +0200
>> To: Linux MIPS Org <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>
>> Subject: Patch to add M3Pnet Driver
>> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
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>> As per previous messages, here's 2 of 2
> 
> This is largely a network driver patch with minor arch bits thrown in so
> this one will have to go via jeff@...zik.org and netdev@...r.kernel.org.
> The MIPS bits are looking good though so feel free to add my
> 
> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
> 
> line for them.
> 
>   Ralf

View attachment "0002-Add-support-for-M3P-MIPS-Memory-Message-Passing-ps.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (15838 bytes)