netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 iproute2 net-next] gre6: add collect metadata support

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Message-ID: <20171212174002.225f0a53@xeon-e3>
Date:   Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:40:02 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 iproute2 net-next] gre6: add collect metadata support

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:07:23 -0800
William Tu <u9012063@...il.com> wrote:

> +.RB external
> +- make this tunnel externally controlled (or not, which is the default).
> +This is also known as collect_metadata mode for tunnels.

Much better.
The man page still needs some work.

The phrase "is also known as" is a little confusing and putting a specific
variable name in man page is misleading. Maybe better wording would
be:

In the kernel, this is referred to as collect metadata mode.