Re: [PATCH 1/7 nft] src: add tunnel template support

[Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>]

Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de> wrote:
> From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
> 
> This patch adds tunnel template support, this allows to attach a
> metadata template that provides the configuration for the tunnel driver.
> 
> Example of generic tunnel configuration:
> 
>  table netdev x {
>         tunnel y {
>                 id 10
>                 ip saddr 192.168.2.10
>                 ip daddr 192.168.2.11
>                 sport 10
>                 dport 20
>                 ttl 10
>         }
>  }

Dumb question, how would such a 'generic' tunnel be used?
Or is this just an intermediate step that adds the common code?