netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] ipv4: support for request type gratuitous ARP

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Message-Id: <20100117.190540.22362723.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:05:40 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ja@....bg
Cc:	opurdila@...acom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, chavey@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ipv4: support for request type gratuitous ARP

From: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:43:54 +0200 (EET)

> 	Looks correct to me. You will save some CPU cycles
> if the 'arp->ar_op == htons(ARPOP_REQUEST)' check is not added.
> May be you also need to change arp_accept in 
> Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt to show that we do not 
> differentiate Gratuitous ARP requests from replies.

Octavian, please make the documentation fix for 'arp_accept'
and resubmit your patch.

It otherwise looks fine to me now.

Thanks.
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