netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] GRE over IPv6

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Date:	Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:31:27 +0400
From:	Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@...l.ru>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] GRE over IPv6

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:

> Why are you implementing an ioctl based instead of using netlink?
> Last I looked using netlink to create and delete tunnels was more
> flexible and the preferred method and the existing ioctl based methods
> were simply being maintained for backwards compatibility.
I have implemented both ioctl and netlink based.
So if ioctl based is unnecessary it is not difficult to remove this
part.

> Also it appears that you have failed to include the all important
> ip6_gre.c
What do you mean ?
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