netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 0/3] l2tp: remove unused fields in struct l2tp

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Message-ID: <20180727075712.65dbc416@xeon-e3>
Date:   Fri, 27 Jul 2018 07:57:12 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 0/3] l2tp: remove unused fields in struct
 l2tp_parm

On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:26:28 +0200
Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr> wrote:

> Several fields of struct l2tp_parm are handled by create_session() but
> can't actually be set by user.
> Most of these fields can also be set by get_response(), but are ignored
> afterwards.
> 
> Since these fields can't have any visible effect, let's just remove
> them.
> 
> Guillaume Nault (3):
>   l2tp: drop data_seq
>   l2tp: drop mtu
>   l2tp: drop lns_mode
> 
>  ip/ipl2tp.c | 13 -------------
>  1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
> 

These make sense for iproute2 next