From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755558Ab2BAALM (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:11:12 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:53929 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752506Ab2BAALL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:11:11 -0500 Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:08:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20120131.190830.1189531706541596294.davem@davemloft.net> To: steweg@ynet.sk Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch v7, kernel version 3.2.1] net/ipv4/ip_gre: Ethernet multipoint GRE over IP From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <4168018.821328016111235.JavaMail.root@5-MeO-DMT.ynet.sk> <20120131.115005.1292336126288944173.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.4 on Emacs 23.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:08:34 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Štefan Gula Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 00:32:04 +0100 > About the new API. Openvswitch is using it's own GRE code, with it's > own API. So if the finally NVGRE or VXLAN will be added to > openvswitch,it doesn't breaks anything to leave also my API as is. You don't understand. If your code is superfluous in the end, we shouldn't add it in the first place. But if I do relent and let your code in now, we have to live with it, and it's associated maintainence costs, FOREVER. That's why I'm forcing this to be implemented properly from the start, so we don't end up with two pieces of code that provide essentially the same functionality.