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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vxlan: how to expose opt-in RFC conformity with unprocessed header flags
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:23:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240116082357.22daf549@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <db8b9e19-ad75-44d3-bfb2-46590d426ff5@proxmox.com>

On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:13:22 +0100 Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> What would be the accepted way to add a switch of making this RFC conform in
> an opt-in way? A module parameter? A sysfs entry? Through netlink?

Thru netlink. My intuition would be to try to add a "ignore
bits" mask, rather than "RFC compliance knob" because RFCs
may have shorter lifespan than kernel's uAPI guarantees..

  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-16 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-12 15:13 vxlan: how to expose opt-in RFC conformity with unprocessed header flags Thomas Lamprecht
2024-01-16 16:23 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-01-22  9:39   ` Ido Schimmel

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