From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, shm@cumulusnetworks.com, dsa@cumulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] vrf: rename the framework to mrf
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:40:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55DB4917.1010307@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150822.104721.739206355128347497.davem@davemloft.net>
Le 22/08/2015 19:47, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 18:10:20 +0200
>
>> This patch renames the recently added vrf driver. 'VRF' term is very
>> generic and there is no clear definition of it.
>> For example, someone may expect more isolation and uses network namespaces
>> to implement VRF,
>
> This is a rediculous argument.
>
> Does someone using VRF on a Cisco box expect Linux namespaces to be used?
>
> Sorry, this is not going to get applied.
>
I spent some time today to check threads on this topic on Quagga and on netdev
and I digged into the VRF-lite's commercial documentations. I finally agree
with you, let's drop this patch.
Nicolas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-24 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-22 16:10 [PATCH net-next] vrf: rename the framework to mrf Nicolas Dichtel
2015-08-22 17:47 ` David Miller
2015-08-24 16:40 ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
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