netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/6] xfrm: Add xfrm6 address translation function

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Date:	Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:58:46 -0600
From:	David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/6] xfrm: Add xfrm6 address translation function

Hi Tom:

On 9/29/15 4:17 PM, Tom Herbert wrote:
> This patch adds xfrm6_xlat_addr which is called in the data path
> to perform address translation (primarily for the receive path). Modules
> may register their own callback to perform a translation-- this
> registration is managed by xfrm6_xlat_addr_add and xfrm6_xlat_addr_del.
> xfrm6_xlat_addr allows translation of addresses for an sk_buff.


Seems like a stretch to lump this into xfrms. You have a separate genl 
based config as opposed to the netlink xfrm API and you are calling the 
xlat_addr function directly in ip6_rcv as opposed to via some policy 
with dst_ops driven redirection. Why call this a xfrm?
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