netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2/net-next 0/7] tc: flower: Masked ICMP match and ND match

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Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:28:47 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
Cc:     Dinan Gunawardena <dinan.gunawardena@...ronome.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2/net-next 0/7] tc: flower: Masked ICMP match and
 ND match

On Thu,  2 Feb 2017 11:38:33 +0100
Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> this series have several related parts.
> 
> * tc: flower: Update documentation to indicate ARP takes IPv4 prefixes
> 
>   Enhance documentation for consistency with later documentation changes.
> 
> * tc: flower: use correct type when calling flower_icmp_attr_type
> 
>   Type correction to ICMP code; should not have runtime effect
> 
> * tc: flower: provide generic masked u8 parser helper
>   tc: flower: provide generic masked u8 print helper
> 
>   Generic parsing and printing of masked u8 options
> 
> * tc: flower: support masked ICMP code and type match
> 
>   Support masking ICMP code and type matches.
>   Unmasked matching is already supported by iproute2
>   Masked matching is already supported by the kernel.
> 
>   This is used by the ND patches
> 
> * tc: flower: Add TCA_FLOWER_KEY_ND_*
>   tc: flower: Support matching on ND
> 
> The last two patches are marked as RFC as they support functionality
> submitted to but not yet not yet present in the kernel.
> 
> 
> Simon Horman (7):
>   tc: flower: Update documentation to indicate ARP takes IPv4 prefixes
>   tc: flower: use correct type when calling flower_icmp_attr_type
>   tc: flower: provide generic masked u8 parser helper
>   tc: flower: provide generic masked u8 print helper
>   tc: flower: support masked ICMP code and type match
>   tc: flower: Add TCA_FLOWER_KEY_ND_*
>   tc: flower: Support matching on ND
> 
>  include/linux/pkt_cls.h |   7 ++
>  man/man8/tc-flower.8    |  58 +++++++++--
>  tc/f_flower.c           | 260 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  3 files changed, 258 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
> 

Since this patchset depended on changes to pkt_cls.h which are not accepted upstream
into net-next, I marked it as awaiting upstream.  When the corresponding kernel changes
are accepted into net-next please resubmit it.