netdev - Re: Trying to implement secondary loopback

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Message-ID: <CAFLxGvwvH_krBDJ2i-si1LX2SKbeeRmXGR+0ZbtEB2oKWt-GoA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:56:05 +0100
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz@....fraunhofer.de>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"edumazet@...gle.com" <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"herbert@...dor.apana.org.au" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Trying to implement secondary loopback

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Thomas Martitz
<thomas.martitz@....fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> I want the loopback during development of the NIC hardware. Once the NIC is
> done I drop the loopback and the card will be used for real networking.
> Thus, I want the loopback to a) test my driver, and b) test the hardware
> (for each milestone) as I'm implementing it.

Sorry, I still don't get why you need a loopback device for that.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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