netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ipv6: remove old conditions on flow label sharing

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Message-ID: <20131103231708.GA8832@order.stressinduktion.org>
Date:	Mon, 4 Nov 2013 00:17:08 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@...t-bretagne.fr>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ipv6: remove old conditions on flow label sharing

On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 02:55:07PM +0100, Florent Fourcot wrote:
> The code of flow label in Linux Kernel follows
> the rules of RFC 1809 (an informational one) for
> conditions on flow label sharing. There rules are
> not in the last proposed standard for flow label
> (RFC 6437), or in the previous one (RFC 3697).
> 
> Since this code does not follow any current or
> old standard, we can remove it.
> 
> With this removal, the ipv6_opt_cmp function is
> now a dead code and it can be removed too.
> 
> Changelog to v1:
>  * add justification for the change
>  * remove the condition on IPv6 options
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@...t-bretagne.fr>

Yup, makes sense.

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Thanks,

  Hannes

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