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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Network acceleration improvements


  • To: Kieran Mansley <kmansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:05:10 +0100
  • Delivery-date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:06:02 -0700
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
  • Thread-index: AcgFxmjNp4+mRnG5EdyZUwAX8io7RQ==
  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Network acceleration improvements

On 3/10/07 14:18, "Kieran Mansley" <kmansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The following patch set improves the network acceleration plugin API in
> Xen through a series of additions and minor bug fixes.

All applied.

> 3/6: Add a version number (and associated checks) to the API between
> netback and the backend acceleration plugin.
> 
> 4/6: Add a version number (and associated checks) to the API between
> netfront and the frontend acceleration plugin.

I can see these being stripped out at some point in the future, if the accel
framework gets submitted upstream. Binary blobs with shifting versioned ABIs
are guaranteed to make the kernel guys vomit.

 -- Keir



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