Re: [PATCH 00/26] IPVS: Add first IPv6 support to IPVS.

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>]

Julius Volz wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Eventially the changes settled down, and for the past few years they
> > have been very infrequent.  But the problem that the interface isn't
> > really extendable and that when changes are made kernel and ipvsadm
> > versions need to be incremented together remains. For instance, the
> > Debian package of ipvsadm actually shipps three different ipvsadm
> > binaries, and a wrapper works out which one to use based on the kernel
> > version.
> Ugh.
>
> > I wonder if now would be a good time to bite the bullet and design
> > a new interface that is extendable.
> If we really have to break it once for IPv6 anyways, it seems like a
> good opportunity. Depends on how invasive the changes would need to
> be, of course...
You don't need to break the old interface, just add an additional
one.

> You probably already have some ideas on what a better interface would
> look like? Especially, how to design it for future backwards
> compatibility? And would it still use sockopts or rather one of the
> other communication mechanisms?
I'd suggest genetlink or nfnetlink.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lvs-devel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html