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

From: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 10:26:38 +0200

On 05/13/2015 07:42 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> 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 :/

You could still alias it if necessary:

   #define RTNH_F_OFFLOAD	RTNH_F_EXTERNAL