From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161184AbXCNMGW (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:06:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161182AbXCNMGV (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:06:21 -0400 Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:37165 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161179AbXCNMGU (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:06:20 -0400 Message-ID: <45F7E527.6030307@trash.net> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:05:59 +0100 From: Patrick McHardy User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051019) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz CC: Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 2.6.20-070313 References: <20070313151549.332004c9@freekitty> <200703141223.48927.arekm@maven.pl> In-Reply-To: <200703141223.48927.arekm@maven.pl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.