Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.20-070313

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:05:59 +0100

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> This patch
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email-masked]/msg27506.html
> 
> didn't make into upstream linux kernel it seems.

As mentioned in the changelog, its in 2.6.19.

> The question is - are patches adding some functionality that's not in upstream 
> kernel accepted?
> 
> There is one wrr patch for iproute floating around that I'm thinking about.

Last time I looked at the WRR patch it was a huge mess and
used architecture dependant types in the netlink messages.
Unless someone fixed this, adding support to iproute is a
bad idea since in case it would get merged compatibility
would break.