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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 iproute2 net-next] gre6: add collect metadata support
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:40:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171212174002.225f0a53@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1513127243-82244-1-git-send-email-u9012063@gmail.com>

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:07:23 -0800
William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com> wrote:

> +.RB external
> +- make this tunnel externally controlled (or not, which is the default).
> +This is also known as collect_metadata mode for tunnels.

Much better.
The man page still needs some work.

The phrase "is also known as" is a little confusing and putting a specific
variable name in man page is misleading. Maybe better wording would
be:

In the kernel, this is referred to as collect metadata mode.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-13  1:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-13  1:07 [PATCH v3 iproute2 net-next] gre6: add collect metadata support William Tu
2017-12-13  1:40 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-12-13  1:43   ` William Tu

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