[CentOS-devel] Multipath-TCP in the centosplus kernel?

Tue Jun 17 19:51:21 UTC 2014
Guillaume Derval <guillaume.derval at student.uclouvain.be>

Le 17 juin 2014 à 19:57, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> a écrit :
> With my initial concern gone, I now have more practical question.
> 
> The modifications are quite extensive as noted in the beginning. I
> count 15 patches in include/ and 29 in /net . For each kernel update,
> the patch set must be updated/tested. Also there may be updates to the
> patches themselves within a given kernel release. How can this be best
> handled? Could dealing with the patches cause a delay in the cplus
> kernel release?
> 
> Having a separate kernel addressing the mptcp stuff might work around
> that potential issue.
> 
> Akemi

I personally think that creating a separate kernel (kernel-cplus-mptcp? :-) ) is the best thing to do.

Best regards,
Guillaume Derval.