netdev - Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?

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Message-ID: <20091018124337.GE27747@prithivi.gnumonks.org>
Date:	Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:43:37 +0200
From:	Harald Welte <laforge@...monks.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	greearb@...delatech.com, zbr@...emap.net, deri@...p.org,
	shemminger@...tta.com, brad.doctor@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?

Hi Dave,

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 02:49:23PM -0700, David Miller wrote:

> > Maybe something similar to the attached patch?
> 
> This is not something I'm interested in applying.
> 
> It makes implementing proprietary complete networking stacks
> for Linux way too easy.

How does it make it any easier?  Even right now you can implement an entire
protocol family in your own module, either by registering as netpoll handler,
or even using the regular dev_add_pack().

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