Re: netfront for review

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Wed May 02 2007 - 00:18:46 EST


Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 17:08 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
>> Add the Xen virtual network device driver.
>>
>
> (Herbert: there's a question for you: grep for Herbert)
>
> OK, this is a remarkably non-trivial driver. If the v0.1 of the driver
> had been in the kernel, I'm sure it would have been about 1/4 the size
> and far easier to review 8(
>
> Nonetheless, I have scoured the entire thing. It's not actually too
> bad.
>

Lovely, thanks. I'm at the double disadvantage of not really knowing
how the network stack works or precisely how Xen does networking, but
the homework exercises ("comment this") will definitely help my education.

J
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