netdev - Re: [PATCHv6 net-next 0/3] net: erspan: add support for openvswitch

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Date:   Thu, 25 Jan 2018 21:40:19 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     u9012063@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, pshelar@....org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 net-next 0/3] net: erspan: add support for
 openvswitch 

From: William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:20:08 -0800

> The first patch refactors the erspan header definitions. 
> Originally, the erspan fields are defined as a group into a __be16 field,
> and use mask and offset to access each field.  This is more costly due to
> calling ntohs/htons and error-prone.  The first patch changes it to use
> bitfields.  The second patch creates erspan.h in UAPI and move the definition
> 'struct erspan_metadata' to it for later openvswitch to use.  The final patch
> introduces the new OVS tunnel key attribute, OVS_TUNNEL_KEY_ATTR_ERSPAN_OPTS,
> to program both v1 and v2 erspan tunnel for openvswitch.

Series applied, thanks William.