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

[Jarod Wilson]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 3:13 PM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri,  2 Oct 2020 13:40:01 -0400
> Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > By default, enable retaining all user-facing API that includes the use of
> > master and slave, but add a Kconfig knob that allows those that wish to
> > remove it entirely do so in one shot.
> >
> > Cc: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Thomas Davis <tadavis@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/Kconfig                   | 12 ++++++++++++
> >  drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c       |  4 ++--
> >  drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c    |  4 ++--
> >  drivers/net/bonding/bond_procfs.c     |  8 ++++++++
> >  drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c      | 14 ++++++++++----
> >  drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs_port.c |  6 ++++--
> >  6 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
>
> This is problematic. You are printing both old and new values.
> Also every distribution will have to enable it.
>
> This looks like too much of change to users.

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.

For simplicity, I'm kind of liking the idea of just not updating the
proc and sysfs interfaces, have a toggle entirely disable them, and
work on enhancing userspace to only use netlink, but ... it's going to
be a while before any such work makes its way to any already shipping
distros. I don't have a satisfying answer here.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@xxxxxxxxxx