Re: [PATCH] macvlan: add tap device backend

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Aug 06 2009 - 23:20:31 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:50:28 +0000

> This is a first prototype of a new interface into the network
> stack, to eventually replace tun/tap and the bridge driver
> in certain virtual machine setups.

I don't know enough to say how good a solution this is for
the problem, but I certainly like this driver for it's
utter simplicity and minimalness.
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