Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261426AbTIYQrY (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:47:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261458AbTIYQrY (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:47:24 -0400 Received: from calma.pair.com ([209.68.1.95]:6148 "HELO calma.pair.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261426AbTIYQrU (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:47:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:47:19 -0400 From: "Chad N. Tindel" To: Shmulik Hen Cc: bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, bonding-announce@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Jay Vosburgh , "Noam, Amir" , "Mendelson, Tsippy" , "Noam, Marom" Subject: Re: [Bonding-announce] [PATCH SET][bonding] cleanup Message-ID: <20030925164719.GA45241@calma.pair.com> Mail-Followup-To: Shmulik Hen , bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, bonding-announce@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Jay Vosburgh , "Noam, Amir" , "Mendelson, Tsippy" , "Noam, Marom" References: <200309251549.59177.shmulik.hen@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200309251549.59177.shmulik.hen@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1516 Lines: 36 > patch set can be downloaded from: > http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bonding/bonding-cleanup-2.4.23-pre5.tar.bz2 > > This will update the following files: > > Documentation/networking/bonding.txt > Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c > drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c > drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c > drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.h > drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h > drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c > include/linux/if_bonding.h > > Description: > patch 1 - ifenslave lite - No more IP settings to slaves, unified > printing format, code re-org and broken to more functions. > patch 2 - convert all debug prints to use the dprintk macro and > consolidate format of all prints (e.g. "bonding: Error: > ..."). > patch 3 - death of typedef. eliminate bonding_t/slave_t types and > consolidate casting. > patch 4 - remove dead code, old compatibility stuff and redundant > checks. I'm a bit concerned about doing some of this stuff in the 2.4 series. That compatibility stuff is there for a reason, and was set to be removed in 2.6. Perhaps we shouldn't be doing stuff this drastic until 2.6 because of the risk of breaking users. Chad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/