netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 2.6.24] fib: fix route replacement, fib

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:10:30 +0100
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2.6.24] fib: fix route replacement, fib_info is shared

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:49:15AM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 02:30:47AM +0200, Julian Anastasov wrote:
...
> > 	fa_match is some existing alias that matches all new parameters.
> > As NLM_F_REPLACE changes the first alternative route for 
> > tos+priority if fa_match == fa_first (we are replacing alias that
> > matches all parameters) we return 0, only that routing cache is not 
> > flushed - nothing is replaced/changed. So, "fa == fa_match" means
> > "replace will not change existing parameters", return 0 as this is
> > not an error.
> 
> Probably I miss something, but what parameters do we change if
> (fa_match) && (fa != fa_match)? Isn't this "goto out" in any case?

OOPS! You mean change is needed, but we can't do this! (I'm so slow...)

All correct!

Thanks again,
Jarek P.
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