Re: [net-next PATCH v3 03/17] net: Merge VXLAN and GENEVE push notifiers into a single notifier

[Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@redhat.com>]

On 16.06.2016 21:21, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> This patch merges the notifiers for VXLAN and GENEVE into a single UDP
> tunnel notifier.  The idea is that we will want to only have to make one
> notifier call to receive the list of ports for VXLAN and GENEVE tunnels
> that need to be offloaded.
> 
> In addition we add a new set of ndo functions named ndo_udp_tunnel_add and
> ndo_udp_tunnel_del that are meant to allow us to track the tunnel meta-data
> such as port and address family as tunnels are added and removed.  The
> tunnel meta-data is now transported in a structure named udp_tunnel_info
> which for now carries the type, address family, and port number.  In the
> future this could be updated so that we can include a tuple of values
> including things such as the destination IP address and other fields.
> 
> I also ended up going with a naming scheme that consisted of using the
> prefix udp_tunnel on function names.  I applied this to the notifier and
> ndo ops as well so that it hopefully points to the fact that these are
> primarily used in the udp_tunnel functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>