netdev - Re: DECnet routing rule resolution

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Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:01:52 +0200
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	swhiteho@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, pcaulfie@...hat.com
Subject: Re: DECnet routing rule resolution

* David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> 2007-03-29 11:43
> From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:24:10 +0100
> 
> > One of the effects of the recent tidy up of the DECnet routing rules
> > code is that we are no longer able to see the difference between reading
> > a rule of type FR_ACT_UNREACHABLE returning -ENETUNREACH and simply
> > running out of rules to look at, which also returns the same thing.
> > 
> > The DECnet code used to return -ESRCH if it ran out of rules in which
> > case the test in dn_route.c (which resulted in DECnet falling back to
> > endnode routing in the -ESRCH case) no longer works.
> > 
> > So there seems to be several options to try and solve this: one is to
> > change the error return for running out of rules in
> > fib_rules.c:fib_rules_lookup() to something else (but then that has a
> > knock on effect in the ipv4 code). Another is to add the "not found"
> > error return as a parameter in the struct fib_rules_ops so that both
> > protocols can have their preferred error return. Both solutions seem a
> > bit messy, so I thought I'd ask for some guidance on this before writing
> > a patch,
> 
> I think we should be able to return -ESRCH (a more sensible error
> value if you ask me) across the board.
> 
> Thomas what do you think?

I agree.
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