Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip/l2tp: remove offset and peer-offset options

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 16:43:10 -0700

On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 17:39:54 +0200
Guillaume Nault <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Ignore options "peer-offset" and "offset" when creating sessions. Keep
> them when dumping sessions in order to avoid breaking external scripts.
> 
> "peer-offset" has always been a noop in iproute2. "offset" is now
> ignored in Linux 4.16 (and was broken before that).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <[email-masked]>

Sure, this makes sense applied.
In theory, you could have just dropped them from the JSON output.