Re: No iproute2 for 2.6.38

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

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?

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