netdev - Re: MPLS for Linux kernel

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Message-ID: <20111121091711.1be69369@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
Date:	Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:17:11 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	jorge@...2.net
Cc:	igorm@....rs,
	Linux Network Development list <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MPLS for Linux kernel

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:01:26 +0100
"Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@...2.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.

Staging?
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