netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] geneve: move all configuration under struct geneve

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Message-Id: <20200706.131639.2107129979551104538.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:16:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sd@...asysnail.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sbrivio@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] geneve: move all configuration under struct
 geneve_config

From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
Date: Mon,  6 Jul 2020 17:18:08 +0200

> This patch adds a new structure geneve_config and moves the per-device
> configuration attributes to it, like we already have in VXLAN with
> struct vxlan_config. This ends up being pretty invasive since those
> attributes are used everywhere.
> 
> This allows us to clean up the argument lists for geneve_configure (4
> arguments instead of 8) and geneve_nl2info (5 instead of 9).
> 
> This also reduces the copy-paste of code setting those attributes
> between geneve_configure and geneve_changelink to a single memcpy,
> which would have avoided the bug fixed in commit
> 56c09de347e4 ("geneve: allow changing DF behavior after creation").
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>

Looks good, applied, thanks.