Re: Request: create ifenslave packages from kernel-image source packages
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 12:21:16PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> Hello kernel team,
>
> I'm maintaining packages for the ifenslave utility. This utility is
> distributed with the kernel sources, in the Documentation/networking/
> directory. This utility is necessary to configure bonding devices.
> However, the ioctl interface changes from kernel version to kernel
> version. In the past I split the package into ifenslave-2.4 and
> ifenslave-2.6, but now it seems the latest 2.4 kernels use the 2.6
> interface (see bugs #257284 and #270416). Instead of fixing these bugs
> myself somehow and waiting for the next incompatible change to happen, I
> was wondering if an ifenslave package could be generated from the
> kernel-image source packages?
This sounds like a rather bad idea as we shouldn't build userspace tools
from the kernel. In fact the intel people agreed on removing
ifenslave.c from the kernel tree a while ago, I'll ping them again.
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