linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Allow user to set metric on default route learned via Router Advertisement.

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Date:   Wed, 30 Dec 2020 17:41:28 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Praveen Chaudhary <praveen5582@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, corbet@....net,
        kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow user to set metric on default route learned via
 Router Advertisement.

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 12:48:32AM -0800, Praveen Chaudhary wrote:
> Allow user to set metric on default route learned via Router Advertisement.
> Not: RFC 4191 does not say anything for metric for IPv6 default route.

Hi Praveen

Please take a look at

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html

and

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/netdev-FAQ.html

In particular, you should be using git format-patch, which will
correctly number your patches, make use of a version number inside the
[PATCH v0 net-next] subject part, and please indicate which tree this
is for.

       Andrew