From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: No iproute2 for 2.6.38 Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:12:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110317.081228.226779291.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4D804EBD.4030904@us.ibm.com> <20110316170441.351efba7@nehalam> <20110317141455.GE1724@khazad-dum.debian.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, sri@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: hmh@hmh.eng.br Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:55597 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753426Ab1CQPLu (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:11:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110317141455.GE1724@khazad-dum.debian.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:14:55 -0300 > On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> > 2.6.38 includes support for macvlan/macvtap 'passthru' mode that allows >> > assigning >> > SR-IOV VFs to a KVM guest via macvtap/virtio. >> > It is not possible to support live migration using direct assignment of >> > VF's to a guest, >> > but 'passthu' assignment makes this possible. >> > >> > Enabling this feature requires the following patch to iproute2 that >> > allows creating macvlan >> > device in 'passthru' mode. >> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/69515/ >> > Looks like this patch is still marked as 'Awaiting upstream'. >> > >> > Could you apply this patch and it would be great if a version of >> > iproute2 is released for 2.6.38. >> >> Sorry missed it applied to repository, still not sure worth a new release. > > Release early, release often. And someone actually bothered asking you to > specifically, so it clearly is going to be useful to that someone. > > So, why not do a 2.6.38 release? Indeed, Stephen please make a release.