From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>,
Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: do not merge differe type and protocol routes
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 18:02:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZQQrmiLREiNYtakK@Laptop-X1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c5a71b96-30aa-4543-2d8e-196a37693254@kernel.org>
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 09:08:18PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 9/14/23 8:23 PM, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 11:36:51AM +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> >>> I do agree now that protocol is informative (passthrough from the kernel
> >>> perspective) so not really part of the route. That should be dropped
> >
> > I'm not sure. Is there any user space route daemon will use this info? e.g. some
> > BGP route daemon?
>
> It is passthrough information for userspace to track who installed the
> route. It is not part of the route itself, but metadata passed in and
> returned.
Thanks. I will drop this info.
Hangbin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-15 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-30 6:15 [PATCH net-next] ipv6: do not merge differe type and protocol routes Hangbin Liu
2023-08-30 14:49 ` David Ahern
2023-08-30 23:51 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-08-30 15:29 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2023-08-30 18:57 ` David Ahern
2023-08-31 8:17 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2023-08-31 10:14 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-08-31 11:58 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2023-08-31 18:27 ` David Ahern
2023-09-01 9:36 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2023-09-15 2:23 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-09-15 3:08 ` David Ahern
2023-09-15 10:02 ` Hangbin Liu [this message]
2023-09-01 3:58 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-09-01 9:50 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2023-09-15 3:49 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-09-15 15:58 ` Nicolas Dichtel
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2023-08-30 6:16 Hangbin Liu
2023-08-30 9:37 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-08-30 9:48 ` Hangbin Liu
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