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

Tue Jun 17 19:59:42 UTC 2014
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

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' ?

Akemi