From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757922AbbCCXg4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2015 18:36:56 -0500 Received: from out03.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.233]:47071 "EHLO out03.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757890AbbCCXgy (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2015 18:36:54 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Michel Machado Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <54F5EF6E.9090303@digirati.com.br> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:33:18 -0600 In-Reply-To: <54F5EF6E.9090303@digirati.com.br> (Michel Machado's message of "Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:29:18 -0500") Message-ID: <87a8ztwta9.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX196AaVj6nDlv6yzj6P8gtGlFenSjpMrHYU= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 70.59.163.10 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.0 TVD_RCVD_IP Message was received from an IP address * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: No description available. * 0.8 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 40 to 60% * [score: 0.4999] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa06 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] * 0.5 XM_Body_Dirty_Words Contains a dirty word X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa06 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;Michel Machado X-Spam-Relay-Country: X-Spam-Timing: total 414 ms - load_scoreonly_sql: 0.05 (0.0%), signal_user_changed: 3.1 (0.8%), b_tie_ro: 2.2 (0.5%), parse: 1.20 (0.3%), extract_message_metadata: 13 (3.0%), get_uri_detail_list: 0.93 (0.2%), tests_pri_-1000: 4.6 (1.1%), tests_pri_-950: 1.30 (0.3%), tests_pri_-900: 1.07 (0.3%), tests_pri_-400: 20 (4.9%), check_bayes: 19 (4.6%), b_tokenize: 6 (1.5%), b_tok_get_all: 6 (1.4%), b_comp_prob: 2.6 (0.6%), b_tok_touch_all: 2.2 (0.5%), b_finish: 0.70 (0.2%), tests_pri_0: 181 (43.8%), tests_pri_500: 185 (44.8%), poll_dns_idle: 175 (42.3%), rewrite_mail: 0.00 (0.0%) Subject: Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal X-Spam-Flag: No X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:00:52 -0600) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in01.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michel Machado writes: > Linux XIA is not yet mature enough for production, but we do think > that broader exposure will help us to move forward faster, and get > more in tune with the interested community. Thus, we are writing to > ask to merge our work into the Linux kernel. I took a quick glance at the code to see if could figure out what you were talking about. Especialy as I could not find any documents on the packet format. The code does not transmit packets. All of the packet transmit functions are stubs. I can think of no greater failure for a networking protocol. Since the code does nothing except have buzz-word compliant descriptions that are content free I respectfully suggest you make it mostly work before foisting it on people. My advice for a future day when you have code that can transmit packets is to start small. Have patches that do things and do them clearly. Once you have a minimal version of working code merged then work your way up. For just sharing your code you might simply want to have your own tree that you publish publicly. Eric