Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next 1/8] xen-netback: re-import canonical netif header

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:36:18AM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
> The canonical netif header (in the Xen source repo) and the Linux variant
> have diverged significantly. Recently much documentation has been added to
> the canonical header and new definitions and types to support packet hash
> configuration. Subsequent patches in this series add support for packet
> hash configuration in xen-netback so this patch re-imports the canonical
> header in readiness.
> 
> To maintain compatibility and some style consistency with the old Linux
> variant, the header was stripped of its emacs boilerplate, and
> post-processed and copied into place with the following commands:
> 
> ed -s netif.h << EOF
> H
> ,s/NETTXF_/XEN_NETTXF_/g
> ,s/NETRXF_/XEN_NETRXF_/g
> ,s/NETIF_RSP/XEN_NETIF_RSP/g
> ,s/netif_tx/xen_netif_tx/g
> ,s/netif_rx/xen_netif_rx/g
> ,s/netif_extra_info/xen_netif_extra_info/g
> w
> EOF
> 
> indent --linux-style netif.h -o include/xen/interface/io/netif.h
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Whilst awaiting review of my patches to the canonical netif.h, import has
> been done from my staging branch using:
> 
> wget 
> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/pauldu/xen.git;a=blob_plain;f=xen/include/public/io/netif.h;hb=refs/heads/netif

There is on-going discussion on this so I'm going to skip this patch for
now.

Wei.

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