netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip/l2tp: remove offset and peer-offset options

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Date:   Thu, 5 Apr 2018 19:19:43 +0200
From:   Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip/l2tp: remove offset and peer-offset options

On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 04:43:10PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 17:39:54 +0200
> Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Ignore options "peer-offset" and "offset" when creating sessions. Keep
> > them when dumping sessions in order to avoid breaking external scripts.
> > 
> > "peer-offset" has always been a noop in iproute2. "offset" is now
> > ignored in Linux 4.16 (and was broken before that).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
> 
> Sure, this makes sense applied.
> In theory, you could have just dropped them from the JSON output.

Indeed, I'll followup on this.