Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?

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From: David Miller
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 2:49 pm

From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:27:45 -0700


This is not something I'm interested in applying.

It makes implementing proprietary complete networking stacks
for Linux way too easy.

Instead I'd rather have a GPL exported function that allows indication
of consumption somehow.  That's why we have a special hook for
bonding, so it cannot be abused in proprietary modules.
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PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Brad Doctor, (Wed Oct 14, 7:33 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Stephen Hemminger, (Wed Oct 14, 9:01 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Jarek Poplawski, (Wed Oct 14, 9:46 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Brad Doctor, (Wed Oct 14, 10:02 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Brad Doctor, (Wed Oct 14, 10:02 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Jarek Poplawski, (Wed Oct 14, 10:18 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Brent Cook, (Wed Oct 14, 11:19 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Stephen Hemminger, (Wed Oct 14, 12:33 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Luca Deri, (Wed Oct 14, 12:54 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, David Miller, (Wed Oct 14, 1:15 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Luca Deri, (Wed Oct 14, 1:17 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Luca Deri, (Wed Oct 14, 1:26 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, David Miller, (Wed Oct 14, 1:27 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, David Miller, (Wed Oct 14, 1:29 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Luca Deri, (Wed Oct 14, 1:34 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Evgeniy Polyakov, (Wed Oct 14, 1:36 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Mark Smith, (Wed Oct 14, 1:50 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Ben Greear, (Wed Oct 14, 2:27 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Luca Deri, (Wed Oct 14, 2:34 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, David Miller, (Wed Oct 14, 2:49 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Ben Greear, (Wed Oct 14, 4:29 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Eric Dumazet, (Wed Oct 14, 5:25 pm)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Evgeniy Polyakov, (Thu Oct 15, 12:02 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, David Miller, (Thu Oct 15, 12:22 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, =?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=A9mi_ ..., (Thu Oct 15, 12:35 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Ben Greear, (Thu Oct 15, 9:33 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Harald Welte, (Sun Oct 18, 5:38 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Harald Welte, (Sun Oct 18, 5:43 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Harald Welte, (Sun Oct 18, 5:45 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Harald Welte, (Sun Oct 18, 5:50 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Harald Welte, (Sun Oct 18, 5:56 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Evgeniy Polyakov, (Sun Oct 18, 7:18 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Evgeniy Polyakov, (Sun Oct 18, 7:50 am)
Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel?, Luca Deri, (Sun Oct 18, 10:37 am)