netdev - Re: Missing device binding relating to tcp_v4_send

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Message-Id: <20100810.014846.258126767.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:48:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	greearb@...delatech.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: Missing device binding relating to tcp_v4_send_reset?

From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:46:26 -0700

> This snippet is from some patches Patrick did for me some time
> back.  I think the rest of his work has been merged upstream, but
> this patch was not.  I'm honestly not sure if it's needed or not,
> but we've been running with it for at least a year or so and it's
> been working fine for us.

There is no reason at all to force a reply to a packet to
go out of the same interface as the packet which triggered
that reply arrived upon.
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