linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] net/ipv6: allow device-only routes via the multipath API

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Message-ID: <85a27a0d-de08-413d-af07-0eb3a3732602@6wind.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:58:59 +0100
From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To: azey <me@...y.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
 netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/ipv6: allow device-only routes via the multipath
 API

Le 26/11/2025 à 18:51, azey a écrit :
> On 2025-11-25 04:00:44 +0100  Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:52:45 +0100 azey wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: azey <me@...y.net>
>>
>> We need real/legal names because licenses are a legal matter.
> 
> Apart from this, are there any other issues with the patch?
I still think that there could be regressions because this commit changes the
default behavior.
As stated for v1, having device-only multipath routes is already possible via
the nexthop API.