netdev - Re: [PATCH] Clean the ip_sockglue.c from some ugly ifdefs

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Date:	Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:38:24 +0300
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean the ip_sockglue.c from some ugly ifdefs

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:52:34PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov escreveu:
>> The #idfed CONFIG_IP_MROUTE is sometimes places inside the if-s,
>> which looks completely bad. Similar ifdefs inside the functions
>> looks a bit better, but they are also not recommended to be used.
>>
>> Provide an ifdef-ed ip_mroute_opt() helper to cleanup the code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
> 
> Perhaps a better name would be ip_mroute_valid_opt()?

No :) The _valid_ mrote opts are from 0 to 8, according to MRT_XXX
macros, not from 0 to 10 as checked. I suspect this was a kind of 
reserve for future use and thus do not change this. 

Correct me if I am wrong.

> - Arnaldo

Thanks,
Pavel
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