Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/3] seg6: SRv6 L2 VPN with End.DT2U and srl2 device

[Stefano Salsano]

Il 26/03/2026 17:30, Nicolas Dichtel ha scritto:
> Le 25/03/2026 à 08:10, Stefano Salsano a écrit :
> > Il 24/03/2026 17:00, Justin Iurman ha scritto:
> > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 12:06 AM Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > this RFC series adds support for the SRv6 End.DT2U behavior and
> > > > introduces the srl2 Ethernet pseudowire device, together with
> > > > corresponding selftests.
> > >
> > > Hi Andrea,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the work you (and Stefano) put into this series! As
> > > discussed offline, there is interest in such a solution.
> >
> > Hi Justin,
> >
> > thx for your interest!
> >
> > > A general comment: I'm not sure about the name "srl2", as we're
> > > talking about SRv6 specifically here.
> >
> > fair point
> >
> > > I would personally love to have
> > > "l2srv6", although I suspect we may end up with "l2seg6" to remain
> > > consistent.
> >
> > I'd like to keep it as short as possible, our initial idea was seg6l2, very
> > close to your last suggestion, then we opted for srl2 losing the "6" concept
> >
> > now it comes to my mind that l2 is somehow redudant in an interface type name,
> > as an interface is an l2 concept per se, so my preferred option becomes:
> >
> > sr6
> Note that the interface name is defined to kind + a number when the IFLA_IFNAME
> attribute is not specified:
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/net/core/rtnetlink.c?h=v7.0-rc5*n3823__;Iw!!O5Bi4QcV!Bw3h__JfgzAoQlG3DyfQsdX5VEQi5Zx9dXbROUeKuwomkISAWgGMwNxjv059RhKI5xV9MpHHknEXDTb9diS16akPWyJi_dCP7aE$
>
> Here, the default name will be 'sr60' :)

+1

> 'vti6' is already in this case, so it's probably ok. I vote for 'sr6' too ;-)
>
> My two cents,
> Nicolas


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