From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
To: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net] vxlan: fix incorrect RCO bit in VXLAN header
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 18:06:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151204180610.51732e36@griffin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALx6S35_CbKfNpGJM6xsSgdkd25iekMCS3jwyG7_B5bCfeJhQw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 08:43:59 -0800, Tom Herbert wrote:
> What a mess VXLAN has become. There are no guidelines or order in
> defining these reserved bits! If anyone is looking to do some work in
> encapsulation please consider bringing up VXLAN-GPE/NSH in the stack,
> hopefully that world will be better....
I'm actually working right now on VXLAN-GPE implementation (and tons of
cleanups in the vxlan code) which is the reason I noticed this bug.
> Acked-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Thanks. David, as this was submitted as RFC, should I resubmit?
Provided that you're okay with the patch, of course; it changes the
on-wire format which should not be taken lightly, even though the
current behavior is incorrect.
Jiri
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Jiri Benc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-04 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-04 12:54 [RFC PATCH net] vxlan: fix incorrect RCO bit in VXLAN header Jiri Benc
2015-12-04 16:43 ` Tom Herbert
2015-12-04 17:06 ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2015-12-04 17:13 ` Tom Herbert
2015-12-07 10:48 ` Jiri Benc
2015-12-05 23:16 ` David Miller
2015-12-07 15:46 ` Thomas Graf
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