On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:06:28 -0700
Shreyas Bhatewara [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:21 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

quoted

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:52:53AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

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Let me put it bluntly. Any design that allows external code to run
in the kernel is not going to be accepted.  Out of tree kernel modules are enough
of a pain already, why do you expect the developers to add another
interface.

Exactly.  Until our friends at VMware get this basic fact it's useless
to continue arguing.

Pankaj and Dmitry: you're fine to waste your time on this, but it's not
going to go anywhere until you address that fundamental problem.  The
first thing you need to fix in your archicture is to integrate the VF
function code into the kernel tree, and we can work from there.

Please post patches doing this if you want to resume the discussion.

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As discussed, following is the patch to give you an idea
about implementation of NPA for vmxnet3 driver. Although the
patch is big, I have verified it with checkpatch.pl. It gave
0 errors / warnings.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Bucchaineri <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <redacted>
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I am surprised, the code seems to use lots of mixed case in places
that don't really follow current kernel practice.