From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shmulik Hen Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] RE: [PATCH] convering bonding driver /proc interface to seq_file Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 17:50:21 +0300 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <200308241750.21391.shmulik.hen@intel.com> References: <3F489659.6040507@free.fr> Reply-To: shmulik.hen@intel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Laurent Deniel In-Reply-To: <3F489659.6040507@free.fr> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sunday 24 August 2003 01:41 pm, Laurent Deniel wrote: > Hen, Shmulik wrote: > > Guys, > > > > Could everyone please hold off the bonding modifications for > > only a short while until we get this sorted out? We have a > > bunch of other patch sets in queue that add lots of new stuff > > and they all depend on that first set being accepted. > > Could you give a short description of what is pending ? this > could avoid duplicate efforts, or worst, incompatible ones ... Mostly I referred to the 3 patch sets already sent to the lists two weeks ago. These patch sets handled back porting stuff from 2.6 to 2.4, correctly handle propagation of settings from a bond device to its slaves and lots of code cleanup. These patches are currently in Jeff's net-drivers queue, and hopefully they'll be merged into 2.4 and from there into 2.6 again, getting 2.6 bonding fully updated. In the near future, among other things, we are planning to consolidate VLAN support over all teaming modes, add support for multiple bonds with different modes, add the ability to dynamically add and remove bond devices and add the ability to dynamically change bond params. Further into the future, we intend to add support for hardware offloading stuff like zero copy, checksumming and VLAN, so owners of newer adapters can benefit from increased banwidth, etc. -- | Shmulik Hen Advanced Network Services | | Israel Design Center, Jerusalem | | LAN Access Division, Platform Networking | | Intel Communications Group, Intel corp. |