netdev - Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1007141015330.1613@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:19:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@...are.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Pankaj Thakkar <pthakkar@...are.com>,
	"pv-drivers@...are.com" <pv-drivers@...are.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
	<virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for
 vmxnet3



On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Greg KH wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:06:28PM -0700, Shreyas Bhatewara wrote:
> >  drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c     | 1845
> > +++++++++++++++++++--------------
> 
> Your patch is line-wrapped and can not be applied :(
> 
> Care to fix your email client?
> 
> One thing just jumped out at me when glancing at this:
> 
> > +static INLINE void
> > +MoveMemory(void *dst,
> > +		void *src,
> > +		size_t length)
> > +{
> > +	size_t i;
> > +	for (i = 0; i < length; ++i)
> > +		((u8 *)dst)[i] = ((u8 *)src)[i];
> > +}
> > +
> > +static INLINE void
> > +ZeroMemory(void *memory,
> > +		size_t length)
> > +{
> > +	size_t i;
> > +	for (i = 0; i < length; ++i)
> > +		((u8 *)memory)[i] = 0;
> > +}
> 
> Is there some reason that our in-kernel functions that do this type of
> logic are not working for you to require you to reimplement this?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

Greg,

Thanks for pointing out. I will fix both these issues and repost the patch.

->Shreyas
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