Hello, The Inter-User Communication Vehicle (IUCV) is a z/VM communication facility that enables a program running in one virtual machine to communicate with another virtual machine, or with a control program, or even with itself. The communication takes place over a predefined linkage called a path. AF_IUCV provides a complete socket interface for socket communication from Linux to Linux (running on z/VM) or Linux on VM to CMS. The AF_IUCV Protocol Support will use IUCV to provide AF_IUCV protocol support for communication with z/VM back-end services. It also can connect socket applications operating in Linux kernels running on different VM user IDs, or to connect a Linux application to another socket application running in a VM guest. AF_IUCV is using a different addressing scheme and therefore there is no chance to use existing drivers like netiucv for such functionality.
The patch set consists of following patches: [1/7] [S390]: Rewrite of the IUCV base code, part 1 [2/7] [S390]: Rewrite of the IUCV base code, part 2 [3/7] [S390]: Adapt monreader driver to new IUCV API [4/7] [S390]: Adapt vmlogrdr driver to new IUCV API [5/7] [S390]: Adapt netiucv driver to new IUCV API [6/7] [S390]: Adapt special message interface to new IUCV API [7/7] [S390]: Add AF_IUCV socket support Basically it will remove the old IUCV base code from drivers/s390/net, adds the new rewritten one to net/iucv. Then all iucv based device drivers like monreader, vmlogrdr, netiucv and special message interface will be adapted to the new IUCV API. The last patch then adds the AF_IUCV socket support residing in net/iucv either. I am asking for integration now and of course code review comments and suggestions are very appreciated . Thank you very much Frank - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
