netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: remove unnecessory call rt6_clean

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Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:03:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	roy.qing.li@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gaofeng@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: remove unnecessory call
 rt6_clean_expires

From: roy.qing.li@...il.com
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:57:33 +0800

> From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>
> 
> ip6_dst_alloc will zero the from and rt6i_flags of dst cache,
> so it is unnecessory to call rt6_clean_expires again.
> 
> Cc: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>

You're modifying ip6_blackhole_route() and ip6_route_add().

Only the latter calls ip6_dst_alloc().

I know the change is OK, but your commit message is extremely
inaccurate, please fix it.
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