From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752899AbaBTUb4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:31:56 -0500 Received: from mail-la0-f51.google.com ([209.85.215.51]:57739 "EHLO mail-la0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752437AbaBTUby (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:31:54 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1392857777.22693.14.camel@dcbw.local> References: <1392433180-16052-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1392433180-16052-3-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1392668638.21106.5.camel@dcbw.local> <1392828325.21976.6.camel@dcbw.local> <1392857777.22693.14.camel@dcbw.local> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:31:30 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: nIToQvusOlMqLMEI9lWaYiQYOBs Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC v2 2/4] net: enables interface option to skip IP To: Dan Williams Cc: Zoltan Kiss , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "David S. Miller" , Alexey Kuznetsov , James Morris , Hideaki YOSHIFUJI , Patrick McHardy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > Note that there isn't yet a disable_ipv4 knob though, I was > perhaps-too-subtly trying to get you to send a patch for it, since I can > use it too :) Sure, can you describe a little better the use case, as I could use that for the commit log. My only current use case was the xen-netback case but Zoltan has noted a few cases where an IPv4 or IPv6 address *could* be used on the backend interfaces (which I'll still poke as its unclear to me why they have 'em). Luis