netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv6: Use passed in table for nexthop lookups

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:07:28 -0600
From:	David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv6: Use passed in table for nexthop
 lookups

On 4/13/16 7:41 PM, David Miller wrote:
> This is semantically different from the referenced ipv4 change.
>
> Lack of a matching table for cfg->fc_table does not result in a
> failure on the ipv4 side.  It falls back in that case.
>
> But here in this ipv6 patch, you do fail if fib6_get_table() gives
> NULL.

Unintentional. I meant for this to behave exactly like the ipv4 change.

>
> One thing that drives me absolutely crazy is all of the subtle
> semantic differences between our ipv4 and ipv6 stack, so I refuse to
> knowingly add new such cases.

I feel that pain on a daily basis.

>
> Therefore, please make the ipv6 behavior match exactly what ipv4
> does.

Will remove the goto out on the table lookup fail and have it fallback 
to current logic. Thanks for catching that difference.