netdev - Re: [PATCH]ipv6:use ipv6_addr_type instead of __ipv6_addr

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Date:	Fri, 08 May 2009 16:18:11 +0800
From:	Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]ipv6:use ipv6_addr_type instead of __ipv6_addr_type

David Miller wrote:
> From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 00:44:20 -0700 (PDT)
> 
>> From: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com>
>> Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 09:18:11 +0800
>>
>>> David Miller wrote:
>>>> From: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com>
>>>> Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 15:47:38 +0800
>>>>
>>>>> Although the function of these two functions are the same,we should use the
>>>>> encapsulation function of __ipv6_addr_type
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang<yanghy@...fujitsu.com>
>>>> Are you sure?  ipv6_addr_type() masks out the upper 16-bits
>>>> of __ipv6_addr_type()'s return value, which is the scope.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not convinced that is what we want to do here.
>>> My advice here is that the function which has __ maybe shouldn't be directly used.
> 
> I also want to address this statement on it's own, it's simply
> not true.
> 
> "__" means "think carefully before using this function", or "this
> function requires a special environment for proper usage"
> 
> It DOES NOT mean "do not use directly."  It's never meant this.

I was wrong,thank you for your patience to explain this.

> 
> So ever basis for your patch is fundamentally flawed.
> 
> 


-- 
Regards
Yang Hongyang
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