Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/5] GRE: Refactor GRE tunneling code.

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:13:25 -0700
Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> wrote:

> Following patch refactors GRE code into ip tunneling code and GRE
> specific code. Common tunneling code is moved to ip_tunnel module.
> ip_tunnel module is written as generic library which can be used
> by different tunneling implementations.
> 
> ip_tunnel module contains following components:
>  - packet xmit and rcv generic code. xmit flow looks like
>    (gre_xmit/ipip_xmit)->ip_tunnel_xmit->ip_local_out.
>  - hash table of all devices.
>  - lookup for tunnel devices.
>  - control plane operations like device create, destroy, ioctl, netlink
>    operations code.
>  - registration for tunneling modules, like gre, ipip etc.
>  - define single pcpu_tstats dev->tstats.
>  - struct tnl_ptk_info added to pass parsed tunnel packet parameters.
> 
> ipip.h header is renamed to ip_tunnel.h
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>

Doesn't build with this patch alone (ie. not bisectable).


  CC [M]  net/ipv6/ip6_gre.o
net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c:41:27: fatal error: net/ip_tunnel.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.