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 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? Julius -- Google Switzerland GmbH -- 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
