Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rename RTNH_F_EXTERNAL to RTNH_F_OFFLOAD

From: Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 07:42:50 +0200

Wed, May 13, 2015 at 07:27:10AM CEST, [email-masked] wrote:
>From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
>
>RTNH_F_EXTERNAL today is printed as "offload" in iproute2 output.
>
>This patch renames the flag to be consistent with what the user sees.
>
>(I will post iproute2 patch if this gets accepted)
>
>Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
>---
> include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h |    2 +-
> net/ipv4/fib_trie.c            |    2 +-
> net/switchdev/switchdev.c      |    6 +++---
> 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
>index 974db03..17fb02f 100644
>--- a/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
>+++ b/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
>@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ struct rtnexthop {
> #define RTNH_F_DEAD		1	/* Nexthop is dead (used by multipath)	*/
> #define RTNH_F_PERVASIVE	2	/* Do recursive gateway lookup	*/
> #define RTNH_F_ONLINK		4	/* Gateway is forced on link	*/
>-#define RTNH_F_EXTERNAL		8	/* Route installed externally	*/
>+#define RTNH_F_OFFLOAD		8	/* offloaded route */

Since this is part of uapi, I believe this is not doable :/