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From: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Cc: 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: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 21:08:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5a71b96-30aa-4543-2d8e-196a37693254@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZQPAL84/w323CgNT@Laptop-X1>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-15  3:08 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 [this message]
2023-09-15 10:02                   ` Hangbin Liu
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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