netdev - Re: [RTNL]: Validate hardware and broadcast address attribute for RTM

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Message-ID: <20080222133135.GC20815@postel.suug.ch>
Date:	Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:31:35 +0100
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RTNL]: Validate hardware and broadcast address attribute for RTM_NEWLINK

* Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> 2008-02-22 14:05
> Minor nitpick: it would be more logical to put this in the
> 
> if (dev) {
>  ...
> 
> branch a bit below since thats the only path that leads to
> do_setlink(). That would also allow to remove the
> if (dev) check from validate_linkmsg().

I knew this question would come up :-)

The reason I did it this way is to keep validate_linkmsg() generic
and make it possible to put validation code which must also apply
to new links (dev==NULL) into that function.
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