netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/3] ipv6: fill rt6i

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1310211009270.1522@ssi.bg>
Date:	Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:31:06 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/3] ipv6: fill rt6i_gateway with nexthop address


	Hello,

On Mon, 21 Oct 2013, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 03:43:04PM +0300, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> > Make sure rt6i_gateway contains nexthop information in
> > all routes returned from lookup or when routes are directly
> > attached to skb for generated ICMP packets.
> > 
> > The effect of this patch should be a faster version of
> > rt6_nexthop() and the consideration of local addresses as
> > nexthop.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
> 
> The patch is fine. I don't mind if we leave it as is or remove rt6_nexthop,
> so:
> 
> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

	Thanks for the review! I don't mind too about
removing rt6_nexthop. For me it is 51% against 49% to keep it
as it denotes the places that use nexthop and not gateway.
May be more opinions will help to decide because I don't know
if there are any plans to use similar techniques as done for IPv4.

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
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