On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Asias He <asias.he...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 06/30/2011 04:56 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Asias He <asias.he...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> uip stands for user mode {TCP,UDP}/IP. Currently, uip supports ARP, ICMP,
>>>> IPV4, UDP, TCP. So any network protocols above UDP/TCP should work as well,
>>>> e.g., HTTP, FTP, SSH, DNS.
>>>
>>> There is an existing uIP which might cause confusion, not sure if
>>> you've seen it. First I thought you were using that :).
>>
>> I heard about uIP, but this patchset have nothing to do with uIP ;-)
>>
>> At first I was naming the user mode network as "UNET" which is User mode
>> NETwork, however, I though uip looks better because it is shorter.
>>
>> Anyway, if uip do cause confusion. I'd like to change this naming.
>
> It's up to you but now is the right time to do it. Consider if
> another program wants to reuse this code or if you ever want to make
> it a library, it wouldn't help to have a confusing name.
I don't care too much what we use as the namespace prefix but as a
directory name tools/kvm/uip is pretty meaningless. I'd just move the
code under tools/kvm/net to mirror what the kernel already has.
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