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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] allow netif frontend to indicate ethernet multic

To: David Edmondson <dme@xxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] allow netif frontend to indicate ethernet multicast groups of interest
From: Kieran Mansley <kmansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:09:49 +0000
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On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 15:40 +0000, David Edmondson wrote:
> Having netfront propagate the request to both the frontend plugin and  
> the backend (which would relay it to the backend plugin) seems  
> straightforward.

Yes.  My only reason for preferring xenstore is that it doesn't need a
change to the plugin API, but you're right that parsing the xenstore
list would likely be more complex than what you're proposing.

Kieran


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