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Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:18:58 +1000
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	Julius Volz <juliusv@...gle.com>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, vbusam@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPVS: Move userspace definitions to
	include/linux/ip_vs.h

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:46:38PM +0200, Julius Volz wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote:
> > Julius Volz wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> +/* Move it to better place one day, for now keep it unique */
> >>>>> +#define NFC_IPVS_PROPERTY      0x10000
> >>>
> >>> Does this have any connection to the skb flag? If so, does
> >>> it really belong in the userspace interface?
> >>
> >> This doesn't seem to be used at all anymore, but I didn't want to
> >> remove it in the same patch... should I?
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is (or has been) used by userspace, someone
> > more familiar with IPVS should answer that.
> 
> I don't think so. It was once used as a bitmask into skb->nfcache,
> which does not even exist anymore. There's no use of it in the current
> ipvsadm. I think it can go away, I'll post an updated patch again.

I'm pretty sure that it is safe to get rid of NFC_IPVS_PROPERTY

-- 
Horms

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