netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next] vxlan: add ttl inherit support

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Date:   Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:15:24 +0800
From:   Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jbenc@...hat.com, lucien.xin@...il.com,
        sbrivio@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next] vxlan: add ttl inherit support

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 03:16:27PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 20:52:54 +0800
> 
> > Like tos inherit, ttl inherit should also means inherit the inner protocol's
> > ttl values, which actually not implemented in vxlan yet.
> > 
> > But we could not treat ttl == 0 as "use the inner TTL", because that would be
> > used also when the "ttl" option is not specified and that would be a behavior
> > change, and breaking real use cases.
> > 
> > So add a different attribute IFLA_VXLAN_TTL_INHERIT when "ttl inherit" is
> > specified.
> > 
> > ---
> > v2: As suggested by Stefano, clean up function ip_tunnel_get_ttl().
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
> 
> I already applied V1 of your patch.
> 
> Furthermore, this commit message would cause your signoffs and other tags
> to be removed due to the "---" deliminator.
> 
> I generally encourage people to leave the change history text _in_ the
> commit message anyways.  It is useful information for the future.

Thanks for the reminding. I will keep this in mind.

Cheers
Hangbin