Messages in this thread | | | From | Jay Vosburgh <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] bonding: make Kconfig toggle to disable legacy interfaces | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:47:07 -0700 |
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Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
>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.
I agree that new tooling should be netlink, but what value is provided by such an option that distros are unlikely to enable, and enabling will break the UAPI?
>Then you might convince maintainers to update documentation as well. >Last I checked there were still references to ifenslave.
Distros still include ifenslave, but it's now a shell script that uses sysfs. I see it used in scripts from time to time.
-J
--- -Jay Vosburgh, jay.vosburgh@canonical.com
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