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Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:54:30 +0100 From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de, ebiederm@...ssion.com, stephen@...workplumber.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net Subject: Re: Universal tap device Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 05:46:25PM CET, jengelh@...i.de wrote: >On Saturday 2013-02-16 15:01, Jiri Pirko wrote: > >>Hi all. >> >>Looking at macvtap and thinking about the tap solutions in general, >>I think it would be handly to have some universal tap device. > >As in, allowing tuntap to register as an rx_handler for arbitrary >devices? Essentially yes, but I was thinking without the actual netdev: not eth0 -> tap0 -> chardev but eth0 -> chardev Not sure though if that is easily doable.. -- 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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