"Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 11:59:08AM +0100, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 03:36:54PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: >> > In particular, the virtio header always has the u16 num_buffers field. >> > We define a new 'struct virtio_net_modern_hdr' for this (rather than >> > simply calling it 'struct virtio_net_hdr', to avoid nasty type errors >> > if some parts of a project define VIRTIO_NET_NO_LEGACY and some don't. >> >> This kind of masks the fact that it's the same as >> virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf. So it's forcing people to duplicate >> code for transitional devices. >> >> How about >> struct virtio_net_modern_hdr { >> struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf hdr; >> } >> >> >> This will also make it look nicer when we start >> adding stuff in the header, the main header >> is separated in a struct by its own, so it's >> easy to apply operations such as sizeof. > > Ping. > Would you like a patch on top that does this?
Hmm, I thought I replied... Indeed, I did. I disagreed, and simply renamed struct virtio_net_modern_hdr to virtio_net_hdr_v1. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/