[etherlab-users] EC kernel driver changes upstream merge?

[Florian Pose]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 04:28:57PM +0100, Erwin Burgstaller wrote:
> The ec_* network driver modules do not work without the EtherCAT master
> loaded. So the master itself would have to be part of the kernel first.

... and it's definitely not a good idea to embed EtherCAT logic in every
network driver in the kernel. ;-)

There is an initiative to implement an "ultra-raw" socket interface for
directly sending and receiving Ethernet frames, but some kernel
developers have concerns about it, because this could be used to
implement an 3rd-party IP-stack... As long as there is no interface like
this, we'll have to keep on patching Ethernet drivers... :-(

-- 
Best regards,
Florian Pose

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