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From: "Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2•net>
To: shemminger@vyatta•com
Cc: igorm@etf•rs, Linux Network Development list <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MPLS for Linux kernel
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:46:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECA8E6C.5020701@dti2.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111121091711.1be69369@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>

El 21/11/2011 18:17, Stephen Hemminger escribió:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:01:26 +0100
> "Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2•net> wrote:
> 
>> El 20/11/2011 22:59, Igor Maravić escribió:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I've been working on implementation of MPLS for Linux kernel, for a
>>> some time now.
>>> I continued the work of James Leu
>>> (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpls-linux/) and used some fixes of
>>> Jorge Boncompte
>>> (http://mpls-linux.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=mpls-linux/net-next;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/net-next-mpls).
>>>
>>> I fixed a lot of bugs, so now it can be compiled and run with all
>>> Kernel Hacking options enabled.
>>> My code could be found on this sites:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/i-maravic/MPLS-Linux
>>> https://github.com/i-maravic/iproute2
>>>
>>> Any feedback is appreciated :)
>>
>> 	Provide, clean, separated, and commented changes to the upstream project as we
>> have asked you several times to do.
>>
>> 	mpls-linux it is not ready to go upstream in my opinion.
> 
> Out of tree is out of mind. Very few developers will bother with
> a kernel component not in the mainline tree.

	Yes, I am well aware of it. I've been cleaning the code, as time permits, with
the intention of trying to submit it.

> 
> Staging?

	I have not really looked at it but I thought that staging is only for drivers?
The mpls-linux code has some (little) hooks in the core networking stuff but I
think that maybe we can remove them and make it almost stand alone.

	I would be more than happy to move the code out of the shadows.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-21 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-20 21:59 MPLS for Linux kernel Igor Maravić
2011-11-21 15:01 ` Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
2011-11-21 17:17   ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-11-21 17:46     ` Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] [this message]
2011-11-21 18:29   ` David Miller
2011-11-21 19:18     ` Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
2011-11-22  8:52       ` Igor Maravić
2011-11-22 12:30         ` Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
2011-11-22 13:55           ` Igor Maravić
2011-11-22 14:33             ` Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
2011-11-22 14:35               ` Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
2011-11-22 15:51               ` Igor Maravić
2011-11-22 21:41                 ` Igor Maravić
2011-11-22 21:49                   ` David Miller
2011-11-23  7:09                     ` Igor Maravić
2011-11-24 23:39                     ` Glen Turner
2011-11-25  5:43                       ` David Miller

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