From: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: <ebiederm@xmission.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH WIP RFC 0/3] mpls: support for ler
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 15:31:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5571B2D4.2040807@brocade.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150605091441.GA11896@pox.localdomain>
On 05/06/15 10:14, Thomas Graf wrote:
> As I mentioned to Robert, the new RTA_ENCAP should be a list of
> Netlink attributes from the beginning to make it extendible without
> ever breaking user ABI.
Just to be clear in both of our approaches, the contents of the
RTA_ENCAP data is interpreted by the encap owner. Therefore, if the mpls
encap doesn't consist of nested attributes then it doesn't preculde
vxlan, for example, consisting of nested attributes.
I do agree though that the netlink format for specifying mpls encap
should support nested attributes from day 1 to allow it to be extended
without breaking the ABI.
Thanks,
Rob
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-05 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-03 14:21 [PATCH WIP RFC 0/3] mpls: support for ler Roopa Prabhu
2015-06-05 9:14 ` Thomas Graf
2015-06-05 14:16 ` roopa
2015-06-05 15:26 ` Robert Shearman
2015-06-06 2:54 ` roopa
2015-06-08 12:33 ` Thomas Graf
2015-06-08 15:17 ` roopa
2015-06-08 22:58 ` Thomas Graf
2015-06-10 7:13 ` roopa
2015-06-12 16:15 ` roopa
2015-06-05 14:31 ` Robert Shearman [this message]
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