From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932406AbWEIL63 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 07:58:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932401AbWEIL63 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 07:58:29 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:56488 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932393AbWEIL62 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 07:58:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 12:58:26 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Chris Wright Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Pratt , Christian Limpach , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver. Message-ID: <20060509115826.GA2213@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Chris Wright , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Pratt , Christian Limpach , netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <20060509084945.373541000@sous-sol.org> <20060509085201.446830000@sous-sol.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060509085201.446830000@sous-sol.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:00:34AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > The network device frontend driver allows the kernel to access network > devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical > network device driver. Please don't add procfs code to new network drivers. Especially if it's oopsable like the code in this driver by simple device renaming.