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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: g.nault@alphalink.fr
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jchapman@katalix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] l2tp: remove ->recv_payload_hook
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:07:38 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180726.140738.714063342671290482.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a20d71b1acf5a81fd80e06120cb40a06fed1c71.1532523126.git.g.nault@alphalink.fr>

From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:53:33 +0200

> The tunnel reception hook is only used by l2tp_ppp for skipping PPP
> framing bytes. This is a session specific operation, but once a PPP
> session sets ->recv_payload_hook on its tunnel, all frames received by
> the tunnel will enter pppol2tp_recv_payload_hook(), including those
> targeted at Ethernet sessions (an L2TPv3 tunnel can multiplex PPP and
> Ethernet sessions).
> 
> So this mechanism is wrong, and uselessly complex. Let's just move this
> functionality to the pppol2tp rx handler and drop ->recv_payload_hook.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>

Applied, thanks Guillaume.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-26 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-25 12:53 [PATCH net-next] l2tp: remove ->recv_payload_hook Guillaume Nault
2018-07-25 13:00 ` Guillaume Nault
2018-07-26 21:07 ` David Miller [this message]

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