ubject: Re: [PATCHv1 5/7] TAP: Extending tap device create/destroy APIs
>
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 12:33 AM, Sainath Grandhi
> wrote:
> > Extending tap APIs get/free_minor and create/destroy_cdev to handle
> > more than one type of virtual interface.
> >
> > Signe
> -Original Message-
> From: Eric Dumazet [mailto:eric.duma...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2017 3:16 PM
> To: Grandhi, Sainath
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; da...@davemloft.net;
> mah...@bandewar.net; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCHv
On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 14:33 -0800, Sainath Grandhi wrote:
> +static int tap_list_add(dev_t major, const char *device_name)
> +{
> + int err = 0;
> + struct major_info *tap_major;
> +
> + tap_major = kzalloc(sizeof(*tap_major), GFP_ATOMIC);
> +
> + tap_major->major = MAJOR(major);
>
On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 12:33 AM, Sainath Grandhi
wrote:
> Extending tap APIs get/free_minor and create/destroy_cdev to handle more than
> one
> type of virtual interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sainath Grandhi
> Tested-by: Sainath Grandhi
Usually it implies that commiter has tested the stuff.
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