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

Tue Jun 17 20:01:31 UTC 2014
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 06/17/2014 03:00 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 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.

That also means that someone (or someones) need to volunteer to maintain
it as well.

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