netdev - Re: fa_type and fib_info

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Message-Id: <20130627.161744.674336032974965021.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:17:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dshwatrz@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fa_type and fib_info - a question

From: David Shwatrz <dshwatrz@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:16:12 +0300

> Why does fib_alias contain an fa_type member and also fib_info contain
> a fib_type member?  A fib_alias must refer to some fib_info object via
> the fa_info pointer. Are there cases when fa_type can differ from
> fib_type? or is it so only for some legacy reason?

It's just a simplification that hasn't been done yet.  They should
both be exactly the same and be derived from cfg->fc_type.
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