>On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:52:25 -0700
>"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> I think that we need to ask the netdev people about this...
>
>If the current generation of the bonding userland tools
>have stopped using these older ioctl values, yes we should
>kill them from the entire kernel tree.
The current user and kernel bonding code both still use these,
although I agree that they can go away (the versions of bonding old
enough to still need them are very old indeed). I don't see a need to
keep them in 2.4, either, as the real SIOCBONDwhatever ioctls date
back at least two years.
My only concern is a matter of timing; we're right at the end
of synchronizing the 2.4 and 2.6 bonding sources. Once that's settled
(hopefully in a few days, the last patch set for 2.4 came in this
morning), then removing them from that header and the bonding code
should be fine.
-J
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-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@xxxxxxxxxx
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