linux-kernel - Re: [net-next 1/2] ipv6: sr: add a per namespace sysctl to control seg6 flowlabel

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Message-Id: <20180424192513.113ec48f44792cad25eeffba@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Apr 2018 19:25:13 +0200
From:   Ahmed Abdelsalam <amsalam20@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     dav.lebrun@...il.com, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
        yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next 1/2] ipv6: sr: add a per namespace sysctl to control
 seg6 flowlabel

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:16:50 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Ahmed Abdelsalam <amsalam20@...il.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:36:59 +0200
> 
> > This patch adds a per namespace sysctl, named 'seg6_flowlabel', to be used
> > by seg6_do_srh_encap() to control the behaviour of setting the flowlabel
> > value of outer IPv6.
> > 
> > The currently support behaviours are as follows:
> > -1 set flowlabel to zero.
> >  0 copy flowlabel from Inner paceket in case of Inner IPv6 (0 for IPv4/L2)
> >  1 Compute the flowlabel using seg6_make_flowlabel()
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ahmed Abdelsalam <amsalam20@...il.com>
> 
> There really isn't a reason to make this a separate patch.
> 
> Adding a sysctl that nothing refers to doesn't add much value.
> 
> So please combine patches #1 and #2.

Ok, I will combine them and send you a new patch. 

Thanks

-- 
Ahmed Abdelsalam <amsalam20@...il.com>