[ovs-dev] [netdevs 3/4] netdev: Decouple creating and configuring network devices.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Aug 8 20:11:09 UTC 2011


Yeah, I think it's a step in the right direction.

I'll push this soon.

On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 01:09:03PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> Nifty, thanks for the series btw, looks like a major code simplification.
> 
> EThan
> 
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 13:08, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 01:05:16PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> >> > I'm not sure that there is an advantage to that. ?Whether we do a
> >> > get_config or a set_config, it's one system call.
> >>
> >> I suppose I assume that if we do a set_config, the kernel will reset
> >> the statistics for that device. If that's not true then it doesn't
> >> matter.
> >
> > It doesn't look to me that the kernel does that. ?I don't remember
> > implementing that behavior earlier.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ben.
> >



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