netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Set mcast_hops to IPV6_DEFAULT

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Date:	Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:09:35 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	lw@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Set mcast_hops to IPV6_DEFAULT_MCASTHOPS when -1
 was given.

From: Li Wei <lw@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:33:34 +0800

> We need to set np->mcast_hops to it's default value at this moment
> otherwise when we use it and found it's value is -1, the logic to
> get default hop limit doesn't take multicast into account and will
> return wrong hop limit(IPV6_DEFAULT_HOPLIMIT) which is for unicast.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li Wei <lw@...fujitsu.com>

Applied, thank you.
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