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From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
To: pravin shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>,
	Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 3/3] gre: allow creation of gretap interfaces in metadata mode
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 10:47:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160426104743.36d19b5c@griffin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOrHB_BZkZhSOWqgsHXDM_3o+zkgCwRYwOL2hr33_p02if9Fxw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 11:00:35 -0700, pravin shelar wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> wrote:
> > The IFLA_GRE_REMOTE attribute does not make sense together with collect
> > metadata and is ignored in such case. However, iproute2 always sets it; it
> > will be zero if there's no remote address specified on the command line.
> >
> > Remove the check for non-zero IFLA_GRE_REMOTE when collect medata flag is
> > set.
> >
> Rather than cover up in ip_gre kernel module, why not just fix
> iproute2 to set the attribute correctly?

Well, who defines "correctly"? :-)

I can do that, it really doesn't matter. One way or the other, the
result will be the same. I'll move this to iproute2 in v3.

 Jiri

      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-26  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-24 11:00 [PATCH net v2 0/3] gre: fix lwtunnel support Jiri Benc
2016-04-24 11:00 ` [PATCH net v2 1/3] gre: do not assign header_ops in collect metadata mode Jiri Benc
2016-04-24 13:45   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-04-26  8:39   ` Jiri Benc
2016-04-24 11:00 ` [PATCH net v2 2/3] gre: build header correctly for collect metadata tunnels Jiri Benc
2016-04-24 11:00 ` [PATCH net v2 3/3] gre: allow creation of gretap interfaces in metadata mode Jiri Benc
2016-04-25 18:00   ` pravin shelar
2016-04-26  8:47     ` Jiri Benc [this message]

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