netdev - Re: Universal tap device

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Message-ID: <20130216165430.GC1536@minipsycho.orion>
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..
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