netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/5] NET: IPV4: ARP: allow to invalidate specific ARP entries

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Date:	Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:11:12 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	maximlevitsky@...il.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] NET: IPV4: ARP: allow to invalidate specific ARP
 entries

From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 01:57:12 +0200

>     NET: IPV4: ARP: allow to invalidate specific ARP entries
>     
>     IPv4 over firewire needs to be able to remove ARP entries
>     from the ARP cache that belong to nodes that are removed, because
>     IPv4 over firewire uses ARP packets for private information
>     about nodes.
>     
>     This information becomes invalid as soon as node drops
>     off the bus and when it reconnects, its only possible
>     to start takling to is after it responded to an ARP packet.
>     But ARP cache prevents such packets from being sent.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.
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