netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/7] [IPSEC]: Store IPv6 nh pointer in mac

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Message-Id: <20071009.132611.115640703.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:26:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] [IPSEC]: Store IPv6 nh pointer in mac_header on
 output

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:36:32 +0800

> [IPSEC]: Store IPv6 nh pointer in mac_header on output
> 
> Current the x->mode->output functions store the IPv6 nh pointer in the
> skb network header.  This is inconvenient because the network header then
> has to be fixed up before the packet can leave the IPsec stack.  The mac
> header field is unused on output so we can use that to store this instead.
> 
> This patch does that and removes the network header fix-up in xfrm_output.
> 
> It also uses ipv6_hdr where appropriate in the x->type->output functions.
> 
> There is also a minor clean-up in esp4 to make it use the same code as
> esp6 to help any subsequent effort to merge the two.
> 
> Lastly it kills two redundant skb_set_* statements in BEET that were
> simply copied over from transport mode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied, thanks Herbert.
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