From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: bonding... Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:30:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20110303.123032.15242274.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20110303114539.GB5146@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20110303160404.GO11864@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> <6286.1299173065@death> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: andy@greyhouse.net, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: fubar@us.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36122 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932248Ab1CCU3z (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2011 15:29:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <6286.1299173065@death> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jay Vosburgh Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:24:25 -0800 > My main problem keeping up at the moment is another demand on my > time that should run its course in a couple of weeks. My time for > community activity is somewhat limited until then. Someone needs to exist who can keep things going when you are too busy. Unless you're like me and never take a day off, you need at least one co-maintainer if your subsystem has lots of daily activity as bonding now does. > I personally like Stephen's suggestion to hook bonding into a > netfilter gadget, similar to ebtables for bridge. Done properly, such a > gadget should handle (or be extended to handle) the niche cases that > right now end up as new knobs in the driver. Netfilter has a JIT like matching engine coming soon, that could be made generic and plugged into.