netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 0/2] add ppp_generic ioctl(s) to bridge channels

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Message-Id: <20201210.142134.777780809639324675.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:21:34 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tparkin@...alix.com
Cc:     gnault@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jchapman@...alix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 0/2] add ppp_generic ioctl(s) to bridge
 channels

From: Tom Parkin <tparkin@...alix.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:16:45 +0000

> On  Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 18:13:09 +0100, Guillaume Nault wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 03:50:56PM +0000, Tom Parkin wrote:
>> > Following on from my previous RFC[1], this series adds two ioctl calls
>> > to the ppp code to implement "channel bridging".
>> > 
>> > When two ppp channels are bridged, frames presented to ppp_input() on
>> > one channel are passed to the other channel's ->start_xmit function for
>> > transmission.
>> > 
>> > The primary use-case for this functionality is in an L2TP Access
>> > Concentrator where PPP frames are typically presented in a PPPoE session
>> > (e.g. from a home broadband user) and are forwarded to the ISP network in
>> > a PPPoL2TP session.
>> 
>> Looks good to me now. Thanks Tom!
>> 
>> Reviewed-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
>> 
> 
> Thanks again for your review and help with the series :-)

Series applied.