netdev - Re: [PATCH] [NET] Exporting of some IPv6 symbols for HIP and SHIM6 experimentation

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Message-Id: <20080506.191848.37229806.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Date:	Tue, 06 May 2008 19:18:48 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	miika@....fi
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [NET] Exporting of some IPv6 symbols for HIP and SHIM6
 experimentation

In article <Pine.SOL.4.64.0805061052470.28110@...konen.cs.hut.fi> (at Tue, 6 May 2008 11:07:49 +0300 (EEST)), Miika Komu <miika@....fi> says:

> > Miika, where are your other patches on top of this?
> > This kind of change might be okay, but it must be along with
> > its users, at least.
> 
> we are maintaining a separate kernel module (GPLv2) for the HIP socket 
> handler for experimentation purposes. If you want to have a look it, you 
> can e.g. download the nightly tarball and have a look at the hipsock 
> directory:
> 
> http://infrahip.hiit.fi/hipl/hipl.tar.gz

Even though, we basically do not accept patches without in-kernel users.

Anyway, I've quickly looked into the code, and IMHO
it is better to avoid using hip_select_socket_handler() and
to introduce new hip_ops (or something) in sock{}.

And, are you working on IPv4 transport?

--yoshfuji
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