Hi Maryam,

How do you want to continue with the patch, I think options we considered:

1. Fix 'use_cni' documentation (which we can backport to LTS) and
overload the argument for new purpose. This will enable new feature by
keeping backward compatibility. And requires new version of this patch.

2. If the 'use_cni' is completely broken in the 23.11 LTS, which means
there is no user or backward compatibility to worry about, we can merge
this patch and backport it to LTS.

3. Don't backport this fix to LTS, merge only to current release, which
means your new feature won't be available to some users as long as a few
years.


(1.) is most user friendly, but if 'use_cni' already broken in LTS we
can go with option (2.). What do you think?

Hi Ferruh

Approach 1 is what I was aiming for. I will respin the patchset shortly (just trying to break things down into logical changes - taking LTS support into account).

BR
Marym

btw, @Ciara, @Maryam, if (2.) is true, how we end up having a feature
('use_cni' dev_args) completely broken in an LTS release?