From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tunnels: Don't require remote endpoint or ID during creation. Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 22:44:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20151018.224439.2162951217660850579.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1445038560-85471-1-git-send-email-jesse@nicira.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com To: jesse@nicira.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:49472 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750726AbbJSF2V (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:28:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1445038560-85471-1-git-send-email-jesse@nicira.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jesse Gross Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:36:00 -0700 > Before lightweight tunnels existed, it really didn't make sense to > create a tunnel that was not fully specified, such as without a > destination IP address - the resulting packets would go nowhere. > However, with lightweight tunnels, the opposite is true - it doesn't > make sense to require this information when it will be provided later > on by the route. This loosens the requirements for this information. > > An alternative would be to allow the relaxed version only when > COLLECT_METADATA is enabled. However, since there are several > variations on this theme (such as NBMA tunnels in GRE), just dropping > the restrictions seems the most consistent across tunnels and with > the existing configuration. > > CC: John Linville > Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross Applied, thanks Jesse.