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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xennet_get_drvinfo()

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xennet_get_drvinfo()
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:17:11 +0000
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On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 20:56 +0000, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> > The fallback does cover the functionality ("driver: vif"), but
> > "driver: xen-netfront" seems to be nicer, because that matches the
> > module (driver) name.
> 
> Hm.  Well, perhaps we should change the driver name?  We can keep
> "vif" as an alias. 

Whatever we do we shouldn't deliberately cause the xen.git 2.6.32 branch
to deviate from what upstream does, if we think this field needs
renaming lets do it on linux-netdev and backport the result.

Ian.


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