Re: [Click] Plans to merge pending pull requests?

2013-01-16 Thread Eddie Kohler
Hi Jimmy, Thanks for the reminder. I went ahead and merged your pull request, as well as versions of all the other outstanding pull requests. I also updated the patchless installation procedure and some problematic aspects of the Click filesystem. At this point Click can install simple

Re: [Click] Plans to merge pending pull requests?

2013-01-16 Thread Avinash Sridharan
Hi Eddie, On a related note. Are there click patches available for linux kernels 3.0 ? I was hoping to run click in kernel mode under UML (user-mode linux) for better debuggability and understanding. On a system running kernel 3.1.0 and higher I was unable to get UML running with an older linux

Re: [Click] Plans to merge pending pull requests?

2013-01-16 Thread Eddie Kohler
Hi Avinash, At this point you don't need a Linux patch to compile or run Click. I recommend you attempt to do without it. Click hacks its way into the Linux packet processing chain, and that hack may not work on all kernels. But try it and let us know what you see. So why still have the patch

Re: [Click] Plans to merge pending pull requests?

2013-01-16 Thread Avinash Sridharan
Thanks a lot for the info Eddie. This is really helpful. I guess I just started the patch process assuming that click would not work with the kernel without the patch. I will try compiling it with the newer kernel, and load it as a module and see what happens. Meanwhile will work on trying to get