[PATCH 1/1] vxlan: fix port type

Thomas Haller thaller at redhat.com
Fri Feb 2 00:29:53 PST 2018


On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 08:22 +0000, Wang Jian wrote:
> port type should be uint16_t.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Jian <jianjian.wang1 at gmail.com>
> ---


Hi,

Thank you for the patch. However, we cannot do this, because it would
break API and ABI.

Also, this doesn't seem to be a problem in practice, because libnl3's
API (uint32_t) can represent all values that kernel would accept
(uint16_t).

Is there a good reason for this change?


best,
Thomas
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