netdev - Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.20-070313

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Message-ID: <45F7E527.6030307@trash.net>
Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:05:59 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@...en.pl>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	lartc@...lman.ds9a.nl
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.20-070313

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> This patch
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/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.

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