Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ieee802154: add virtual loopback driver

From: Oliver Hartkopp <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:28:55 +0200

Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> fakelb is a virtual loopback driver implementing one or several
> interconnected radios. 

> +
> +static int radios = 3;
> +module_param(radios, int, 0444);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(radios, "Number of simulated radios");
> +

> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < radios; i++) {
> +		err = ieee802154fake_add_priv(&pdev->dev, priv);
> +		if (err < 0)
> +			goto err_slave;
> +	}
> +

Hi Dimtry,

creating software networking devices like this is IMO not state-of-the-art for
 kernel inclusion.

Please use the NETLINK interface for creating the virtual loopback drivers,
like e.g. the virtual CAN driver (drivers/net/can/vcan.c) does.

Regards,
Oliver
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