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From: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Thomas Davis <tadavis@lbl.gov>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] bonding: make Kconfig toggle to disable legacy interfaces
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:47:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17374.1600818427@famine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200922162459.3f0cf0a8@hermes.lan>

Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:37:30 -0400
>Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> By default, enable retaining all user-facing API that includes the use of
>> master and slave, but add a Kconfig knob that allows those that wish to
>> remove it entirely do so in one shot.
>> 
>> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
>> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
>> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Thomas Davis <tadavis@lbl.gov>
>> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
>
>Why not just have a config option to remove all the /proc and sysfs options
>in bonding (and bridging) and only use netlink? New tools should be only able
>to use netlink only.

	I agree that new tooling should be netlink, but what value is
provided by such an option that distros are unlikely to enable, and
enabling will break the UAPI?

>Then you might convince maintainers to update documentation as well.
>Last I checked there were still references to ifenslave.

	Distros still include ifenslave, but it's now a shell script
that uses sysfs.  I see it used in scripts from time to time.

	-J

---
	-Jay Vosburgh, jay.vosburgh@canonical.com

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-22 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-22 13:37 [PATCH net-next 0/5] bonding: rename bond components Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 13:37 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] bonding: rename struct slave member link to link_state Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 13:37 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] bonding: rename slave to link where possible Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 23:23   ` Michal Kubecek
2020-09-22 23:51     ` David Miller
2020-09-25 11:52       ` Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 13:37 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] bonding: rename master to aggregator " Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 13:37 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] bonding: make Kconfig toggle to disable legacy interfaces Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 22:05   ` Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 23:24   ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-22 23:47     ` Jay Vosburgh [this message]
2020-09-23  0:01       ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-23 16:44         ` Jarod Wilson
2020-09-24 22:47           ` Jay Vosburgh
2020-09-23  4:13   ` kernel test robot
2020-09-23  4:13   ` [RFC PATCH] bonding: linkdesc can be static kernel test robot
2020-09-23 11:29     ` Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 13:37 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] bonding: update Documentation for link/aggregator terminology Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 22:19 ` [PATCH net-next 0/5] bonding: rename bond components Jay Vosburgh
2020-09-25 12:13   ` Jarod Wilson

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