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

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 06/17/2014 10:59 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Guillaume Derval
> <guillaume.derval at student.uclouvain.be> wrote:
>> 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.
> That probably makes everyone's life easier. And KB says he would
> provide support either way. In this case, it will be a distro kernel
> derivative, so a 'kernel-mptcp' ?
+1 for separate kernel-mptcp