On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > This patchset expands the KVP (Key Value Pair) functionality to > implement the mechanism to get/set IP addresses in the guest. This > functionality is used in Windows Server 2012 to implement VM > replication functionality. The way IP configuration information > is managed is distro specific. The current implementation supports > RedHat way of doing things. We will expand support to other distros > incrementally. > So there is going to be a continuous flow of patches to add support for new distros (Arch Linux, Slackware, Linux Mint, SuSE, Debian, etc etc) and if different versions of a distro handles things differently then you are also going to deal with that? Might be fine, but it just sounds a bit scary to me to try to support m different distros, each in n different versions from the kernel... Couldn't this somehow be done once and for all in a distro neutral way? Just asking :-) -- Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
