HEADS UP: tenetative plan to merge VIMAGE parts

[Julian Elischer]

On 2/3/11 11:47 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I will be at FOSDEM this weekend (if you are as well and want to talk,
> send me an email off list or try to find me in the crowds).  When back
> next week I plan to extract the initial parts from perforce and merge
> them to SVN. This will include:
>
> 1) vnet socket pushdown.
>
> followed by:
> 2) general VIMAGE framework.
>
> and
> 3) user space changes.
>
> probably along with some "noise" to ddb and documentation.  it could
> be that VIMAGE in HEAD would be "unstable" for a couple of days during
> these times.
>
the sooner the better I think
>
> This batch will not yet include actual VNET teardwn or interface
> cloners changes but will provide the foundation for that.
>
> I hope I'll be able to quickly afterwards make the patches for the 
> interface
> cloners available and in addition to the bridge code posted and the 
> carp
> code I have, so we can look at the missing cloned interfaces state, 
> while
> in parallel trying to get ports breakage figured out.
>
> I'll keep you updated during next week as things progress and might
> post merge candidate patches for your testing.


>
> Regards,
> Bjoern
>