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.
next prev parent 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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