netdev - Re: [PATCH] ip_tunnel: Ops registration for secondary encap (fou, gue)

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Message-Id: <20141112.151129.856876397234334953.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:11:29 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	therbert@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rdunlap@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip_tunnel: Ops registration for secondary encap (fou,
 gue)

From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:07:19 -0800

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:03 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
>> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:54:09 -0800
>>
>>> Instead of calling fou and gue functions directly from ip_tunnel
>>> use ops for these that were previously registered. This patch adds the
>>> logic to add and remove encapsulation operations for ip_tunnel,
>>> and modified fou (and gue) to register with ip_tunnels.
>>>
>>> This patch also addresses a circular dependency between ip_tunnel
>>> and fou that was causing link errors when CONFIG_NET_IP_TUNNEL=y
>>> and CONFIG_NET_FOU=m. References to fou an gue have been removed from
>>> ip_tunnel.c
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
>>
>> Applied, please in the future be explicit about the target tree by
>> saying "[PATCH net-next]" or similar in your Subj.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time I've had to ask this of
>> you. :-/
>>
> I was unsure which branch to target since the bug was reported in
> linux-next. Is next-next appropriate in this case?

Tom, this code doesn't even exist in the 'net' tree, how could it
possibly apply to anything other than 'net-next'?
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