From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:37:08 +0100 (BST) > That however I would like to keep -- I find it particularly valuable and > a great advantage of this piece of hardware to be able to tap into all the > SMT traffic crossing this adapter, both incoming and outgoing, for > educational and diagnostic purposes. Without this capability a second > FDDI station is required to be able to see both traffic streams, and also > it has to be exactly the next downstream neighbour or some traffic will > undoubtedly be stripped from the ring by intermediate stations. > > Therefore I would like to retain this capability. If you're unhappy with > tapping in directly, then I think sending them back down the usual receive > path would do, although at some performance hit. So I'd prefer to avoid > it if possible -- can you propose an alternative by any chance? > > Thanks for your review, please let me know how to proceed with the issues > that remain open. I'll send updated code once we've settled, I think > there's little point in publishing an update before then. We're not exporting all of these internals for the unique desires of one single driver.
