netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fix for ip_options_rcv

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Message-ID: <4EC22307.1000408@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:29:59 +0800
From:	Li Wei <lw@...fujitsu.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fix for ip_options_rcv_srr() daddr update.

> My long term plan is to eliminate cached routes, we will directly use
> routing table entries instead.
> 
> In such a scheme, the member rt->rt_dst will no longer even exist.
> 
> This is what I've been working towards for more than a year, it is a
> slow and very difficult transformation.
> 
> If you starting adding rt->rt_dst references back, we are taking
> steps backwards.
> 
> 

Thank you, I got it. 

I'll do my best to fix it but without any promise, because i am a kernel
newbie :D

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