netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Support ip route get via given table

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Date:	Wed, 2 Sep 2015 21:12:44 +0200
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Support ip route get via given table

On 09/02/15 at 12:03pm, David Ahern wrote:
> Add support for 'ip [-6] route get table X' where the user wants to
> force the FIB lookup from a given table.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>

Will you use this outside of 'ip route get' as well? If so, how? I'm
asking because you propose to add the check and new behaviour to bypass
the routing rules to the routing fastpath, wouldn't it be better to
handle this in inet_rtm_getroute()?
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