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On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Siim Põder wrote:
Hi.
I ran into trouble with LVS today (LVS+NAT) and thanks to
the list
it's in the HOWTO too.
I found out there was a patch (LVS-NAT source routing
patch) that would make it all work out. Of course I can
add the patch (and propably will have to),
it's probably simplest to just apply Julian's nfct patches.
but I was just curious wether there is an effort to merge
the patch to the main kernel tree (especially as there
doesn't seem to be any controversy with the patch)?
we're working on it. Horms is the main person fixing up the
kernel and he does it only in his spare time.
There's a lot of undigested code around that the works for
the authors. However the person submitting it to the kernel
has to vouch for it. This means he has to understand the
problem, understand what's fixed (and not fixed), understand
the code, make sure the code has the correct style for the
kernel, and *test* it. It's the difference between knowing
how much you earned last year and submitting a tax form that
won't result in a letter from the IRS. You don't want to
submit code that any one of 100 people won't like for
whatever reason.
So there's a bit of work between someone sending in a piece
of code that works for them and code that goes in the
kernel.
Joe
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