netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25] [NEIGH] Remove unused method from include/net/neighbour.h

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Date:	Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:26:31 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ramirose@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25] [NEIGH] Remove unused method from
 include/net/neighbour.h

From: "Rami Rosen" <ramirose@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:56:46 +0200

> It seems to me that neigh_is_valid() inline method from
> include/net/neighbour.h can be removed since it is not used.
> 
> Though it can be considered as an API for future use, and
> indeed we have neigh_is_connected() method in this same header (which is BTW
> used only in one place, drivers/net/cxgb3/l2t.c), we can easily notice
> that we don't have
> any accessor method to check whether the neighbour is in NUD_IN_TIMER
> (not to mention that we don't have methods to check the single neighbour states,
> like NUD_REACHABLE or NUD_DELAY or the other ones). So for consistency
> I suggest to
> consider removing the neigh_is_valid() method.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@...il.com>

This is a helper function which was used by drivers implementing
support for the old fast routing code which we removed years ago.

So yes we should remove this.

Patch applied.
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