netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 2/6] lwtunnel: add LWTUNNEL_IP_OPTS support for lwtunnel

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Message-ID: <20191009111511.0e173396@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 9 Oct 2019 11:15:11 +0200
From:   Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
To:     Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
Cc:     Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>,
        network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
        Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, u9012063@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 2/6] lwtunnel: add LWTUNNEL_IP_OPTS support
 for lwtunnel_ip

On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 09:55:27 +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> This is the same concerned that was raised by others when I posed a patch
> to allow setting of Geneve options in a similar manner. I think what is
> called for here, as was the case in the Geneve work, is to expose netlink
> attributes for each option that may be set and have the kernel form
> these into the internal format (which appears to also be the wire format).

I agree with Simon.

Thanks,

 Jiri