From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
To: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Fix egress tunnel info.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 21:32:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151006213245.74810d81@griffin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALnjE+rk4d0bfsqu3KMhpYUDqYPzPYkA+ZqS5VU_J_GbAj5p4A@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 12:21:24 -0700, Pravin Shelar wrote:
> It should report the flag when device parameters are requested by
> userspace if there is support for lwtunnel. So check for the flag
> should be good enough test for lwtunnel support. Why is that not
> reliable check?
Which device? You'll need to create one before querying it. Which won't
work so nicely for older kernels. Basically, what the user space would
have to do is trying to create a vxlan interface and then deleting it
and going the tunnel vport way. It can be quite confusing, I'm afraid.
Jiri
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Jiri Benc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-06 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-05 17:58 [PATCH net] openvswitch: Fix egress tunnel info Pravin B Shelar
2015-10-05 18:40 ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-05 19:37 ` Pravin Shelar
2015-10-06 15:56 ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-06 18:28 ` Pravin Shelar
2015-10-06 18:45 ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-06 18:55 ` Pravin Shelar
2015-10-06 19:03 ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-06 19:21 ` Pravin Shelar
2015-10-06 19:32 ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2015-10-06 21:16 ` Pravin Shelar
2015-10-07 8:09 ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-07 9:34 ` Thomas Graf
2015-10-07 9:53 ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-07 17:19 ` Pravin Shelar
2015-10-06 15:42 ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-06 18:26 ` Pravin Shelar
2015-10-06 18:55 ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-06 19:11 ` Pravin Shelar
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