On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 12:06 PM Jonas Bonn <jo...@norrbonn.se> wrote: > > This series begins by reverting the recently added patch adding support > for GTP with lightweight tunnels. That patch was added without getting > any ACK from the maintainers and has several issues, as discussed on the > mailing list. > > In order to try to make this as painless as possible, I have reworked > Pravin's patch into a series that is, hopefully, a bit more reviewable. > That series is rebased onto a series of other changes that constitute > cleanup work necessary for on-going work to IPv6 support into the > driver. The IPv6 work should be rebaseable onto top of this series > later on. > > I did try to do this other way around: rebasing the IPv6 series on top > of Pravin's patch. Given that Pravin's patch contained about 200 lines > of superfluous changes that would have had to be reverted in the process > of realigning the patch series, things got ugly pretty quickly. The end > result would not have been pretty. > > So the result of this is that Pravin's patch is now mostly still in > place. I've reworked some small bits in order to simplify things. My > expectation is that Pravin will review and test his bits here. In > particular, the patch adding GTP control headers needs a bit of > explanation. > > This is still an RFC only because I'm not quite convinced that I'm done > with this. I do want to get this onto the list quickly, though, since > this has implications for the next merge window. So let's see if we can > sort this out to everyone's satisfaction. >
I am all for making progress forward. Thanks Jonas for working on this. I will finish the review next week.
