From: Stefan Tomanek <stefan.tomanek@wertarbyte.de>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fib_rules: add minimum prefix length
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:52:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130723225246.GR10216@zirkel.wertarbyte.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130723153829.3b6cb3df@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
Dies schrieb Stephen Hemminger (stephen@networkplumber.org):
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/fib_rules.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fib_rules.h
> > @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ enum {
> > FRA_FLOW, /* flow/class id */
> > FRA_UNUSED6,
> > FRA_UNUSED7,
> > - FRA_UNUSED8,
> > + FRA_TABLE_PREFIXLEN_MIN,
> > FRA_TABLE, /* Extended table id */
> > FRA_FWMASK, /* mask for netfilter mark */
> > FRA_OIFNAME,
>
> Not sure if reusing an entry or adding a new value is better
> to retain compatibility.
Well, neither am I; my first changesets did in fact act a new value,
but I then switched to reusing an existing one. I am open to suggestions
from people having more experience with the existing code base.
> Also don't you have to update FRA_GENERIC_POLICY?
Well, I'm not sure - as I said, I was glad that I was able to add this
functionality (which I was craving for quite some time now) to the kernel,
so please feel free to point out (and possibly iron out) any issues with it.
Thank you very much for your response
Stefan Tomanek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-23 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-23 22:02 [PATCH] fib_rules: add minimum prefix length Stefan Tomanek
2013-07-23 22:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-07-23 22:52 ` Stefan Tomanek [this message]
2013-07-24 2:14 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-07-24 7:57 ` Stefan Tomanek
2013-07-25 16:29 ` Stefan Tomanek
2013-07-25 17:43 ` [PATCH] fib_rules/fib6rules: " Stefan Tomanek
2013-07-25 18:17 ` [PATCH] fib_rules: " Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-07-25 18:28 ` Stefan Tomanek
2013-07-25 21:46 ` Andrew Collins
2013-07-25 22:11 ` Stefan Tomanek
2013-07-26 10:46 ` [PATCH] fib_rules: add .suppress operation Stefan Tomanek
2013-07-26 17:05 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-07-27 6:08 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-07-27 6:26 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-07-27 7:07 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-07-27 10:21 ` Stefan Tomanek
2013-07-27 15:10 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-07-28 10:36 ` Stefan Tomanek
2013-07-30 6:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] fib6_rules: make error handling consistent with IPv4 Stefan Tomanek
2013-07-30 6:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] fib_rules: add .suppress operation Stefan Tomanek
2013-07-30 7:03 ` David Miller
2013-07-30 7:23 ` Stefan Tomanek
2013-07-30 7:34 ` David Miller
2013-07-30 7:46 ` [PATCH v3] " Stefan Tomanek
2013-07-31 22:13 ` David Miller
2013-08-01 0:24 ` Stefan Tomanek
2013-08-01 0:26 ` David Miller
2013-08-01 0:17 ` [PATCH v4] " Stefan Tomanek
2013-08-01 0:27 ` David Miller
2013-08-01 1:26 ` Stefan Tomanek
2013-08-01 5:35 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-07-26 10:54 ` [PATCH] fib_rules: add minimum prefix length Stefan Tomanek
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