netdev - Re: [FIX][PATCH] ipv6 addrconf.c : wrong handling of non-ipv6 hardware since 2.6.21

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Date:	Thu, 17 May 2007 22:41:42 +0200
From:	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [FIX][PATCH] ipv6 addrconf.c : wrong handling of non-ipv6 hardware
 since 2.6.21

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 schrieb:
> In article <464C886F.50703@...tkopp.net> (at Thu, 17 May 2007 18:53:03 +0200), Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net> says:
>
>   
>> +static int ipv6_hwtype(struct net_device *dev)
>> +{
>> +    if ((dev->type == ARPHRD_ETHER) ||
>> +        (dev->type == ARPHRD_LOOPBACK) ||
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_IPV6_SIT) || defined(CONFIG_IPV6_SIT_MODULE)
>> +        (dev->type == ARPHRD_SIT) ||
>> +#endif
>> +        (dev->type == ARPHRD_TUNNEL6) ||
>> +        (dev->type == ARPHRD_FDDI) ||
>> +        (dev->type == ARPHRD_IEEE802_TR) ||
>> +        (dev->type == ARPHRD_ARCNET) ||
>> +        (dev->type == ARPHRD_INFINIBAND))
>> +        return 1;
>> +
>> +    return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>>     
>
> Please remove #if, or please provide for other
> dependencies as well (e.g., CONFIG_IPV6_TUNNEL etc.)
>
> Otherwise, I would agree.
>
>   
Hello Hideaki,

thanks for your (positive) feedback.
Indeed ARPHRD_SIT is the only hardware type that's explicitely #if 'ed 
in the addrconf.c code. Any other ARPHRD_* is not conditional to any 
CONFIGs. E.g. there is no #ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_TUNNEL arround the other 
ARPHRD_TUNNEL6 stuff in addrconf.c.

So the current patch meets the exact functional extension to the other 
code, where only ARPHRD_SIT is in #if 's.
Of course it is no problem to remove the #if defined(CONFIG_IPV6_SIT)  
... but this would be the only place in the code then.

Are you sure, that you really want have a divergent codestyle only here 
in ipv6_hwtype()?

If so i can post it of course.

Best Regards,
Oliver

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