netdev - Re: [PATCH]ipv6:use ipv6_addr_type instead of __ipv6_addr

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Message-Id: <20090507.145931.179746218.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 07 May 2009 14:59:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yanghy@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]ipv6:use ipv6_addr_type instead of __ipv6_addr_type

From: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 15:47:38 +0800

> Although the function of these two functions are the same,we should use the
> encapsulation function of __ipv6_addr_type
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang<yanghy@...fujitsu.com>

Are you sure?  ipv6_addr_type() masks out the upper 16-bits
of __ipv6_addr_type()'s return value, which is the scope.

I'm not convinced that is what we want to do here.
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