netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: Make skb->skb

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:43:25 +0200
From:	Nicolas de Pesloüan 
	<nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ja@....bg, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: Make skb->skb_iif always track skb->dev

Le 24/07/2012 01:45, David Miller a écrit :
>
> Make it follow device decapsulation, from things such as VLAN and
> bonding.
>
> The stuff that actually cares about pre-demuxed device pointers, is
> handled by the "orig_dev" variable in __netif_receive_skb().  And
> the only consumer of that is the po->origdev feature of AF_PACKET
> sockets.
>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller<davem@...emloft.net>

Jiri tried to remove this orig_dev usage in af_packet in march 2011, without success, by using the 
value of skb_iif instead :-)

In case my opinion might be relevant:

Reviewed-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@...e.fr>

	Nicolas.
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