netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next V2 2/4] net/dst: Utility functions to build dst

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Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2016 21:53:03 +0300
From:   Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
To:     Amir Vadai <amir@...ai.me>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
        Hadar Har-Zion <hadarh@...lanox.com>,
        Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2 2/4] net/dst: Utility functions to build
 dst_metadata without supplying an skb

Hi,

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:27:08 +0300 Amir Vadai <amir@...ai.me> wrote:
> Extract _ip_tun_rx_dst() and _ipv6_tun_rx_dst() out of ip_tun_rx_dst()
> and ipv6_tun_rx_dst(), to be used without supplying an skb.

Additional thing.

In subsequent patches the newly introduced '_ip_tun_rx_dst' and
'_ipv6_tun_rx_dst' are used in a non "rx" context (e.g. for constructing
a IP_TUNNEL_INFO_TX in act_tunnel_key), so the names are misleading.

Consider renaming.