netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: clean up rt6_clean

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Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:32:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jbohac@...e.cz
Cc:	gaofeng@...fujitsu.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: clean up rt6_clean_expires

From: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:35:41 +0200

> Functionally, this change is a NOP.
> 
> Semantically, rt6_clean_expires() wants to do rt->dst.from = NULL instead of
> rt->dst.expires = 0. It is clearing the RTF_EXPIRES flag, so the union is going
> to be treated as a pointer (dst.from) not a long (dst.expires).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>

Applied.
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