Re: No iproute2 for 2.6.38

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:14:55 -0300

> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> > 2.6.38 includes support for macvlan/macvtap 'passthru' mode that allows 
>> > assigning
>> > SR-IOV VFs to a KVM guest via macvtap/virtio.
>> > It is not possible to support live migration using direct assignment of 
>> > VF's to a guest,
>> > but 'passthu' assignment makes this possible.
>> > 
>> > Enabling this feature requires the following patch to iproute2 that 
>> > allows creating macvlan
>> > device in 'passthru' mode.
>> >      http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/69515/
>> > Looks like this patch is still marked as 'Awaiting upstream'.
>> > 
>> > Could you apply this patch and it would be great if a version of 
>> > iproute2 is released for 2.6.38.
>> 
>> Sorry missed it applied to repository, still not sure worth a new release.
> 
> Release early, release often.  And someone actually bothered asking you to
> specifically, so it clearly is going to be useful to that someone.
> 
> So, why not do a 2.6.38 release?

Indeed, Stephen please make a release.