netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: make br_parse_ip

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Message-ID: <20101019112234.GB12005@stratus.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:22:34 -0400
From:	Bandan Das <bandan.das@...atus.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: make br_parse_ip_options  static

On  0, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> wrote:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> 
> --- a/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c	2010-10-18 17:01:36.903364885 -0700
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_netfilter.c	2010-10-18 17:01:48.106569141 -0700
> @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static inline void nf_bridge_update_prot
>   * expected format
>   */
>  
> -int br_parse_ip_options(struct sk_buff *skb)
> +static int br_parse_ip_options(struct sk_buff *skb)
>  {
>  	struct ip_options *opt;
>  	struct iphdr *iph;
> 

My main motivation behind not making this static was that
there would be possibly other places in the bridge code 
(besides br_netfilter.c) where we enter the IP stack and might 
want to call this. Not sure if it's indeed the case though..

-- 
Bandan
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