Subject: Re: iproute2: resend of patches from Debian.

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:05:39 +0200

Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Add mpath to ip manpage.
> 
> From: Norbert Buchmuller <[email-masked]>
> 
> The 'mpath' parameter of 'ip route' is not documented in the manual page
> nor in ip-cref.tex.
> 
> ...huge part of the text in the patch was taken from the net/ipv4/Kconfig
> file in the Linux kernel source (2.6.18). I suppose that's OK because both
> Linux and iproute2 are GPL'd, but I let you know anyway.
> 
> See Debian bug #428442 - http://bugs.debian.org/428442
> 
> diff -Naur iproute-20061002/doc/ip-cref.tex iproute-20061002.fixed/doc/ip-cref.tex
> --- iproute-20061002/doc/ip-cref.tex	2007-06-11 19:26:52.000000000 +0200
> +++ iproute-20061002.fixed/doc/ip-cref.tex	2007-06-11 20:34:09.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1348,6 +1348,28 @@
>  route reflecting its relative bandwidth or quality.
>  \end{itemize}
>  
> +\item \verb|mpath MP_ALGO|

This has been removed from the kernel again because of complete
brokeness, so this patch shouldn't be merged.