Re: [bonding] Add basic support for dynamic configuration of bond interfaces

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andi,
Can you point to specifics that break 64 bit emulation so we can avoid
them?
I have to admit the pf_key interaction is relatively unorthrodox but
looked fine.
What are the things you will perform surgery on?

cheers,
jamal

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 07:38, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 16:59:10 -0500
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > ioctls are a pain for 32/64-bit emulation layers too.  It seems much 
> > easier to define a netlink protocol family of some sort and communicate 
> > that way.
> 
> Actually that's not true. netlink is far worse for emulation layers when you
> break the protocol. e.g. the current ipsec/pf_key protocol is not compatible
> on x86-64 and it is near impossible to fix it without major surgery.
> With ioctls it would be far easier to fixbecause the infrastructure for 
> emulation
> is already there.
> 
> -Andi
>