From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: steffen.klassert@secunet.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/4] ipv6: Fix iflink setting for ipv6 tunnels
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:43:05 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141103.154305.242200539181988126.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415002770-5797-1-git-send-email-steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 09:19:26 +0100
> The ipv6 tunnels do the dev->iflink setting too early, it gets
> overwritten by register_netdev(). So set dev->iflink from within
> a ndo_init function to keep the configured setting.
>
> This patchset fixes this for ip6_tunnel, vti6, sit and gre6.
Series applied, good catch, and thanks for checking all of the ipv6
tunnel drivers for this problem.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-03 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-03 8:19 [PATCH net 0/4] ipv6: Fix iflink setting for ipv6 tunnels Steffen Klassert
2014-11-03 8:19 ` [PATCH net 1/4] ip6_tunnel: Use ip6_tnl_dev_init as the ndo_init function Steffen Klassert
2014-11-03 8:19 ` [PATCH net 2/4] vti6: Use vti6_dev_init " Steffen Klassert
2014-11-03 8:19 ` [PATCH net 3/4] sit: Use ipip6_tunnel_init " Steffen Klassert
2014-11-03 8:19 ` [PATCH net 4/4] gre6: Move the setting of dev->iflink into the ndo_init functions Steffen Klassert
2014-11-03 20:43 ` David Miller [this message]
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