On 06/18/15 at 09:49pm, Roopa Prabhu wrote: > From: Roopa Prabhu <ro...@cumulusnetworks.com> > > Introduces two netlink attributes RTA_ENCAP_TYPE and > RTA_ENCAP to support attaching encap information to ipv4 routes. > > RTA_ENCAP is a nested attribute as suggested by Thomas > (and also as Robert had it in his series). RTA_ENCAP > netlink policy is declared by the light weight tunnel > drivers that support this encap type. > > fib code calls the following for each nexthop: > - new route handler: > lwt build state (that parses RTA_ENCAP and returns > lwt state that lives in every fib_nh) > - del dump hanlder: > lwt release handler to release lwt state data > - route dump hanlder: > lwt dump encap to fill RTA_ENCAP data > - during input route lookup > sets dst->output to lwtunnel_output which > in turn calls the corresponding lwt tunnel > output function which applies the required > encap and xmits the packet
Thanks for putting in the flag! I think introducing helpers for the lwt work would help as it can centralize the required ifdef magic and be defined as a static inline nop or macros so the core routing code doesn't need to have ifdefs spread around. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
