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Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:30:32 -0800 (PST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: fubar@...ibm.com
Cc: andy@...yhouse.net, nhorman@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bonding...
From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:24:25 -0800
> My main problem keeping up at the moment is another demand on my
> time that should run its course in a couple of weeks. My time for
> community activity is somewhat limited until then.
Someone needs to exist who can keep things going when you are too
busy. Unless you're like me and never take a day off, you need
at least one co-maintainer if your subsystem has lots of daily
activity as bonding now does.
> I personally like Stephen's suggestion to hook bonding into a
> netfilter gadget, similar to ebtables for bridge. Done properly, such a
> gadget should handle (or be extended to handle) the niche cases that
> right now end up as new knobs in the driver.
Netfilter has a JIT like matching engine coming soon, that could
be made generic and plugged into.
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