From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932293AbdBIWHo (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2017 17:07:44 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:51494 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752338AbdBIWHn (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2017 17:07:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 17:07:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20170209.170741.524666868372427163.davem@davemloft.net> To: sainath.grandhi@intel.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mahesh@bandewar.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 0/7] Refactor macvtap to re-use tap functionality by other virtual intefaces From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1486589836-53858-1-git-send-email-sainath.grandhi@intel.com> References: <1486589836-53858-1-git-send-email-sainath.grandhi@intel.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 25.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Thu, 09 Feb 2017 13:08:44 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sainath Grandhi Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 13:37:09 -0800 > Tap character devices can be implemented on other virtual interfaces like > ipvlan, similar to macvtap. Source code for tap functionality in macvtap > can be re-used for this purpose. > > This patch series splits macvtap source into two modules, macvtap and tap. > This patch series also includes a patch for implementing tap character > device driver based on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. > > These patches are tested on x86 platform. I get rejects on patch #7 when I try to apply this to net-next, please respin.