From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com>,
Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>,
Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Thomas Davis <tadavis@lbl.gov>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] bonding: make Kconfig toggle to disable legacy interfaces
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:24:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200922162459.3f0cf0a8@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200922133731.33478-5-jarod@redhat.com>
On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:37:30 -0400
Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> wrote:
> By default, enable retaining all user-facing API that includes the use of
> master and slave, but add a Kconfig knob that allows those that wish to
> remove it entirely do so in one shot.
>
> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com>
> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>
> Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Davis <tadavis@lbl.gov>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Why not just have a config option to remove all the /proc and sysfs options
in bonding (and bridging) and only use netlink? New tools should be only able
to use netlink only.
Then you might convince maintainers to update documentation as well.
Last I checked there were still references to ifenslave.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-22 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-22 13:37 [PATCH net-next 0/5] bonding: rename bond components Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 13:37 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] bonding: rename struct slave member link to link_state Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 13:37 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] bonding: rename slave to link where possible Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 23:23 ` Michal Kubecek
2020-09-22 23:51 ` David Miller
2020-09-25 11:52 ` Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 13:37 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] bonding: rename master to aggregator " Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 13:37 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] bonding: make Kconfig toggle to disable legacy interfaces Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 22:05 ` Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 23:24 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-09-22 23:47 ` Jay Vosburgh
2020-09-23 0:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-09-23 16:44 ` Jarod Wilson
2020-09-24 22:47 ` Jay Vosburgh
2020-09-23 4:13 ` kernel test robot
2020-09-23 4:13 ` [RFC PATCH] bonding: linkdesc can be static kernel test robot
2020-09-23 11:29 ` Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 13:37 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] bonding: update Documentation for link/aggregator terminology Jarod Wilson
2020-09-22 22:19 ` [PATCH net-next 0/5] bonding: rename bond components Jay Vosburgh
2020-09-25 12:13 ` Jarod Wilson
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