netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] vxlan: allow specifying multiple default destinations

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Date:	Sun, 2 Jun 2013 10:09:23 +0300
From:	Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@...ellosystems.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] vxlan: allow specifying multiple default destinations

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> wrote:
> On 05/30/13 at 03:46pm, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>> I'm feeling Ok about "ip link set [..] dstadd/dstdel". What does bother
>> me is that you can't have different parameters for "ip link add" and "ip
>> link set" for vxlan (and other iplink) utility. So, one can use
>> ip link add [..] dstdel
>> which does not make sense...
>
> You can easily pass an additional argument into iplink_modify()
> and exclude certain options in the "add" use case.

I think there's no need to pass an additional argument to iplink_modify.
The vxlan_parse_opts may check the flags in nlmsghdr to distinguish
between the "add" and "set" cases.
Than we'll have 'ip link add [..]' as it was and the 'ip link set
[..]' will be used to manage default destinations.

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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