Re: [RFC 2/9] ipv6: sr: add code base for control plane support of SR-IPv6

[Nicolas Dichtel]

Le 29/08/2016 à 17:31, Roopa Prabhu a écrit :
> On 8/26/16, 8:52 AM, David Lebrun wrote:
>> This patch adds the necessary hooks and structures to provide support
>> for SR-IPv6 control plane, essentially the Generic Netlink commands
>> that will be used for userspace control over the Segment Routing
>> kernel structures.
>>
>> The genetlink commands provide control over two different structures:
>> tunnel source and HMAC data. The tunnel source is the source address
>> that will be used by default when encapsulating packets into an
>> outer IPv6 header + SRH. If the tunnel source is set to :: then an
>> address of the outgoing interface will be selected as the source.
>>
>> The HMAC commands currently just return ENOTSUPP and will be implemented
>> in a future patch.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Lebrun <david.leb...@uclouvain.be>
>>
> This looks fine. But, i am just trying to see if this can be rtnetlink.
I agree with Roopa, why not using rtnl?