Re: [PATCH net-next v2 6/6] bonding: make Kconfig toggle to disable legacy interfaces

From: Jarod Wilson
Date: Sat Oct 03 2020 - 15:48:42 EST


On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 6:57 PM David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 16:23:46 -0400
>
> > I'd had a bit of feedback that people would rather see both, and be
> > able to toggle off the old ones, rather than only having one or the
> > other, depending on the toggle, so I thought I'd give this a try. I
> > kind of liked the one or the other route, but I see the problems with
> > that too.
>
> Please keep everything for the entire deprecation period, unconditionally.

Okay, so 100% drop the Kconfig flag patch, but duplicate sysfs
interface names are acceptable, correct? Then what about the procfs
file having duplicate Slave and Port lines? Just leave them all as
Slave?

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Jarod Wilson
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