On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 6:42 PM Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 16:23:46 -0400 > Jarod Wilson <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 3:13 PM Stephen Hemminger > > <step...@networkplumber.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 13:40:01 -0400 > > > Jarod Wilson <ja...@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. ... > > > This is problematic. You are printing both old and new values. > > > Also every distribution will have to enable it. > > > > > > This looks like too much of change to users. > > > > I'd had a bit of feedback that people would rather see both, and be > > able to toggle off the old ones, rather than only having one or the > > other, depending on the toggle, so I thought I'd give this a try. I > > kind of liked the one or the other route, but I see the problems with > > that too. > > > > For simplicity, I'm kind of liking the idea of just not updating the > > proc and sysfs interfaces, have a toggle entirely disable them, and > > work on enhancing userspace to only use netlink, but ... it's going to > > be a while before any such work makes its way to any already shipping > > distros. I don't have a satisfying answer here. > > > > I like the idea of having bonding proc and sysf apis optional.
I do too, but I'd see it more as something only userspace developers would care about for a while, as an easy way to make absolutely certain their code/distro is no longer reliant on them and only uses netlink, not as something any normal user really has any reason to do. -- Jarod Wilson ja...@redhat.com
