On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 21:55 +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Hi Sowmini, > > Neat. Though, in my case, I'm not actually just prepending a header. > I'm doing some more substantial transformations of a packet. And this > needs to work with v4 too. So I'm not sure implementing a v6 spec will > help with things. I need to identify the right mechanism inside the > kernel to assist with this, like, say, a member in sk_buff.
There is very little chance we'll accept a new member in sk_buff, unless proven needed. Yes, it is very tempting and dozen of programmers already tried. You'll have to demonstrate full understanding of the stack and why other solutions do not work. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
