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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][RFC] net/bridge: Add basic VEPA support to Xen D

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][RFC] net/bridge: Add basic VEPA support to Xen Dom0
From: "Fischer, Anna" <anna.fischer@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:36:06 +0000
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][RFC] net/bridge: Add basic VEPA support to Xen Dom0
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][RFC] net/bridge: Add basic VEPA
> support to Xen Dom0
> 
> On 23/06/2009 17:25, "Fischer, Anna" <anna.fischer@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > This patch adds basic Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA)
> > capabilities to the Xen Dom0 kernel Ethernet bridging code.
> 
> Our 2.6.18 tree is not much used now. A more useful destination for the
> kernel portion would be upstream Linux (via linux-kernel mailing list),
> since this doesn't seem to be Xen specific. This would also get
> networking
> maintainers' eyes on the patch, which would be interesting 

As mentioned in the patch description, we have also submitted this to upstream 
Linux via linux-kernel and netdev etc. 

So this is just an additional patch to enable VEPA also for Xen versions that 
are not based on the current upstream Linux tree.

Anna

 


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