netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 net-next] inetpeer: get rid of ip_id

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Date:	Mon, 02 Jun 2014 05:17:36 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 net-next] inetpeer: get rid of ip_id_count

On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 19:01 -0700, David Miller wrote:

> I like it.

Great ;)

> 
> I think we should get rid of the 'dst' argument from __ip_select_ident() (and thus
> ip_select_ident() and ip_select_ident_mode()), it is completely unused.

Sure, I did that, and also renamed ip_select_ident_more() to avoid
decrement number of segs in caller in increment it in
__ip_select_ident() again.

> 
> It might even help to do so for ipv6_select_ident(), having it just pass the
> dest addr pointer in instead.

I added a new helper to perform the id reservation in one place only.

Thanks !


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