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

Tue Jun 17 20:00:28 UTC 2014
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 06/17/2014 02:51 PM, Guillaume Derval 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.
>

I think a separate kernel might be best too.

It can be kernel-mptcp and live in centos-plus if we choose to do
kernel-plus, kernel-<some_name>, etc. or we can do it another way, but
regardless in a separate kernel is likely best.

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