netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/6 net-2.6.25] IPv4 RAW: Compact the API for the kernel

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Message-Id: <20071119.223522.171514440.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:35:22 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...nvz.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6 net-2.6.25] IPv4 RAW: Compact the API for the kernel

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:05:59 +0300

> The raw sockets functions are explicitly used from 
> inside the kernel in two places:
> 
> 1. in ip_local_deliver_finish to intercept skb-s
> 2. in icmp_error
> 
> For this purposes many functions and even data structures,
> that are naturally internal for raw protocol, are exported.
> 
> Compact the API to two functions and hide all the other
> (including hash table and rwlock) inside the net/ipv4/raw.c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

Applied, thanks Pavel.
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