From: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:36:00 -0700
> Before lightweight tunnels existed, it really didn't make sense to > create a tunnel that was not fully specified, such as without a > destination IP address - the resulting packets would go nowhere. > However, with lightweight tunnels, the opposite is true - it doesn't > make sense to require this information when it will be provided later > on by the route. This loosens the requirements for this information. > > An alternative would be to allow the relaxed version only when > COLLECT_METADATA is enabled. However, since there are several > variations on this theme (such as NBMA tunnels in GRE), just dropping > the restrictions seems the most consistent across tunnels and with > the existing configuration. > > CC: John Linville <linvi...@tuxdriver.com> > Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> Applied, thanks Jesse. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
