Re: feature request - why not make netif_rx() a pointer?

From: David S. Miller (davem@rth.ninka.net)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 17:42:39 EST


On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 14:15, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> ftp://zmailer.org/linux/netif_rx.patch

Please EXPORT_GPL this, if you are going to do it at all.

Only non-GPL compliant binary-modules can result from this
change.

People can easily do things like implement their own entire
networking stack with this hook, which is not what we want nor
is it allowed.

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