From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: therbert@google.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/9] gue: Changes to ip_tunnel to support Generic UDP Encapsulation
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:53:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140717.145345.1627726281054820171.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1407162055520.29792@tomh.mtv.corp.google.com>
From: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:14:44 -0700 (PDT)
> This patch changes IP tunnel to support (secondary) encapsulation,
> Generic UDP Encapsulation. Changes include:
>
> 1) Adding tun_hlen as the tunnel header length, encap_hlen as the
> encapsulation header length (GUE), and hlen becomes the grand total
> of these.
> 2) Added generic function to handle IOCTLs
> 3) Added IOCTLs to setup or remove encapsulation. This includes
> uapi to configure encapsulation on a tunnel.
> 4) Support to perform GUE encapsulation in ip_tunnel_xmit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Please extend the netlink interface for creating IP tunnels rather
than adding things to the the deprecated ioctl interface.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-17 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-17 4:14 [PATCH net-next 3/9] gue: Changes to ip_tunnel to support Generic UDP Encapsulation Tom Herbert
2014-07-17 21:53 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-07-21 3:31 ` Tom Herbert
2014-07-21 4:39 ` David Miller
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