netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] tipc: add peer remove functionality

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Message-ID: <20160829103440.0eaae72a@xeon-e3>
Date:   Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:34:40 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
Cc:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] tipc: add peer remove functionality

On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:18:29 +0200
Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com> wrote:

> This enables a user to remove an offline peer from the kernel data
> structures. This could for example be useful when deliberately scaling
> in peer nodes in a cloud environment.
> 
> This functionality was first merged in:
> f9dec657e4 (Richard Alpe tipc: add peer remove functionality)
> 
> And later backed out (as the kernel counterpart was held up) in:
> 385caeb13b (Stephen Hemminger Revert "tipc: add peer remove functionality")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>

Applied to net-next branch