Re: CVS commit: src

[Pavel Cahyna <pavel%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:28:14AM +0000, David Young wrote:
> 
> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: dyoung
> Date:         Fri Oct  5 03:28:14 UTC 2007
> 
> Modified Files:
>       src/distrib/sets/lists/comp: mi
>       src/sys/net: if_gre.c if_gre.h
>       src/sys/netinet: Makefile in_proto.c
> Removed Files:
>       src/sys/netinet: ip_gre.c ip_gre.h
> 
> Log Message:
> Work in progress: use a raw socket for GRE in IP encapsulation
> instead of adding/subtracting our own IPv4 header.
> 
> There are many benefits:  gre(4) needn't grok the outer encapsulation
> header any longer, so this simplifies the gre(4) code.  The IP
> stack needn't grok GRE, so it is simplified, too.

How did the IP stack need to grok GRE? I see that the IP stack itself was
not touched by this commit.

Pavel