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

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>]

On 11/25/2010 02:17 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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.

Yes, exactly.  I backported Ben's change so that .32 would be more like
later kernels; if the device name is useless (which it is), then we
should change it everywhere.

    J

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