netdev - Re: [Patch net-next] vxlan: revert "vxlan: Bypass encapsulation if the destination is local"

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Date:	Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:31:20 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next] vxlan: revert "vxlan: Bypass encapsulation if
 the destination is local"

On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 16:07 -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> To address this behavior seen with veth, i had to change the if 
> condition to
> check for rt->dst.dev->flags rather than rt->rt_flags. 

There is no specific IFF_ flag for veth, nor I think introducing one is
a correct fix.

I think we can just revert it for now, since it is not very easy to fix.
You can, of course, send a bug-free version later. This regression
blocks my VXLAN IPv6 support patches, by the way.


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