[LARTC] Re: Hotplug and Multipath routes = lost route

[LARTC] Re: Hotplug and Multipath routes = lost route

[Dâniel Fraga]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:27:37 -0500
Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net> wrote:

> Do some reading about Julian Anastasov's kernel patches, in
> particular the dead gateway detection patch
> (http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/dgd.txt).

	Yes, I read that, but I don't understand why those patches
aren't merged in the kernel. Is there some kind of opposition to these
patches? Thanks.

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Re: [LARTC] Re: Hotplug and Multipath routes = lost route

[Grant Taylor]

On 07/25/07 01:58, Dâniel Fraga wrote:
> Yes, I read that, but I don't understand why those patches aren't 
> merged in the kernel. Is there some kind of opposition to these 
> patches?

Julian would be the better person to ask, but I'll take a stab at it.

I don't know of any opposition per say that is preventing the patches 
from going in to the main line kernel.  I think it has more to do with 
the need for the functionality verses the complexity both of which in 
conjunction with the fact that in the later 2.6 kernel networking and 
net filter code has undergone *MASSIVE* changes.  As such the demand to 
get the patches in to the kernel has probably not been high enough to 
warrant the effort, especially if the patches will apply cleanly to a 
stock kernel.

> Thanks.

*nod*



Grant. . . .
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