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Petr Machata fd36fd26ae selftests: forwarding.config.sample: Move overrides to lib.sh

forwarding.config.sample, net/lib.sh and net/forwarding/lib.sh contain
definitions and redefinitions of some of the same variables. The overlap
between net/forwarding/lib.sh and forwarding.config.sample is especially
large. This duplication is a potential source of confusion and problems.

It would be overall less error prone if each variable were defined in one
place only. In this patch set, that place is the library itself. Therefore
move all comments from forwarding.config.sample to net/forwarding/lib.sh.

Move over also a definition of TC_FLAG, which was missing from lib.sh
entirely.

Additionally, add to lib.sh a default definition of the topology variables.
The logic behind this is that forgetting to specify forwarding.config was a
frequent source of frustration for the selftest users. But really, most of
the time the default veth based topology is just fine. We considered just
sourcing forwarding.config.sample instead if forwarding.config is not
available, but this is a cleaner solution.

That means the syntax of the forwarding.config.sample override has to
change to an array assignment, so that the whole variable is overwritten,
not just individual keys, which could leave the value of some keys
unchanged. Do the same in lib.sh for any cut'n'pasters out there.

The config file is then given a sort of carte blanche to redefine whatever
variables it sees fit from the libraries. This is described in a comment in
the file. Only a handful of variables are left behind, to illustrate the
customization.

The fact that the variables are now missing from forwarding.config.sample,
and therefore would miss from forwarding.config derived from that file as
well, should not change anything. This is just the sample file. Users that
keep their own forwarding.config would retain it as before.

The only observable change is introduction of TC_FLAG to lib.sh, because
now the filters would not be attempted to install to HW datapath. For veth
pairs this does not change anything. For HW deployments, users presumably
have forwarding.config with this value overridden.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b9b8a11a22821a7aa532211ff461a34f596e26bf.1711464583.git.petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

2024-03-28 18:03:41 -07:00

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LoongArch changes for v6.9

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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2024-03-28 17:25:57 -07:00

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