Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] Re: [SET 2][PATCH 2/8][bonding] Propagating master'ssettings toslaves

From: Shmulik Hen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:03:15 +0300

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 04:08 pm, David S. Miller wrote:

> Policy belongs strictly at user space.

Regarding bonding, what policies are we talking about ?
run-time ?  config time ?  both ?  other ?
Our current aim is config time only.

> One of the great things about what Jamal spends his time working
> on is finally a strict seperation of the control layer from
> everything else.  And part of this is moving all of the control
> logic into userspace. Once that is accomplished, I can have my
> toilet flush every time a TCP packet is routed through my system
> and this won't crap up the kernel.

What scope are we talking about here ?
2.4 ?  2.6 ?  2.7 ?  other ?
Our current aim is 2.4 and 2.6.

Taking into account the two statements I made above:
Do you think that what we're doing right now might interfere with what 
Jamal is suggesting ?
Wouldn't it be possible to do things the old way first and than 
convert everything to the new way ?
Shouldn't all this be a part of a totally new project like "bonding2"

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