netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/9] net: add support for IPv6 Segment Routing

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Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:26:47 +0100
From:   David Lebrun <david.lebrun@...ouvain.be>
To:     Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
CC:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/9] net: add support for IPv6 Segment Routing

On 11/10/2016 10:14 AM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> So you'd split SRH functionality in three parts? Core (default on),
> lwtunnel (default off) and inline?
> 
> It seems to me that once you've done the work to enable the core code
> to work when CONFIG_LWTUNNEL is off, you can just enable/disable the
> LWT part of SRH depending on whether CONFIG_LWTUNNEL is compiled in or
> not. That might save you a config option.

That would be easier indeed, but then this behavior should be documented
somewhere: how the user would know that it has to enable CONFIG_LWTUNNEL ?

David


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