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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>, wenxu@ucloud.cn
Cc: fw@strlen.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] netfilter: nft_meta: Add NFT_META_I/OIFKIND meta type
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 07:27:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1a3c7cc-cdd5-3409-8296-f057c6e869c6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190118142430.rsnru4hyrbsodobf@salvia>

On 1/18/19 7:24 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> 
> There is no other way to identify a vft device rather than this
> string? The only l3mdev that exists if vrf, right?

ipvlan uses some of the hooks.

> 
> If there is no other alternative, we can just place this in the tree,
> but probably it would be better to have a numeric way to identify a
> vrf device?

IFF_L3MDEV_MASTER and IFF_L3MDEV_SLAVE are used via netif_is_l3_master
and netif_is_l3_slave in all of the code. This was done because of
requests to not bleed 'vrf' all over core kernel code.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-18 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-15 23:53 [PATCH v3] netfilter: nft_meta: Add NFT_META_I/OIFKIND meta type wenxu
2019-01-18 14:24 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-01-18 14:27   ` David Ahern [this message]
2019-01-18 14:30     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-01-18 14:32   ` Florian Westphal
2019-01-18 14:35     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-01-24 13:51       ` wenxu
2019-01-24 13:59         ` Florian Westphal

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