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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Cc: pravin shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>,
	Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] gre: do not assign header_ops in collect metadata mode
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 03:41:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160423014143.GC32327@pox.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160422232054.3f6b47da@griffin>

On 04/22/16 at 11:20pm, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:04:48 -0700, pravin shelar wrote:
> > I think we should we return error in case of such configuration rather
> > than silently ignoring it.
> 
> I thought about it and I'm not sure. We're not returning an error
> currently, starting returning it now might be perceived as uAPI
> breakage.
> 
> But given it doesn't work at all currently, there are apparently no
> users yet. I'll wait for more feedback.

As a user, I would probably favour receiving an error for a configuration
that can't possibly work and was not working before.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-23  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-22 17:44 [PATCH net 0/3] ipgre: fix lwtunnel support Jiri Benc
2016-04-22 17:44 ` [PATCH net 1/3] gre: do not assign header_ops in collect metadata mode Jiri Benc
2016-04-22 21:04   ` pravin shelar
2016-04-22 21:20     ` Jiri Benc
2016-04-23  1:41       ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2016-04-24  9:31         ` Jiri Benc
2016-04-22 17:44 ` [PATCH net 2/3] gre: build header correctly for collect metadata tunnels Jiri Benc
2016-04-22 21:05   ` pravin shelar
2016-04-23  0:03     ` Simon Horman
2016-04-22 17:44 ` [PATCH net 3/3] gre: receive also TEB packets for lwtunnels Jiri Benc
2016-04-22 21:07   ` pravin shelar
2016-04-22 21:27     ` Jiri Benc
2016-04-23  3:40       ` pravin shelar
2016-04-24  9:54         ` Jiri Benc
2016-04-23  1:49   ` Thomas Graf
2016-04-23  5:09     ` Simon Horman
2016-04-24  9:38       ` Jiri Benc
2016-04-28  6:49   ` Simon Horman
2016-04-28  8:23     ` Jiri Benc

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