netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH] net: ipv6: use common fib_default_rule

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Message-Id: <20150902.113439.1914221451599696711.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:34:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	phil@....cc
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] net: ipv6: use common fib_default_rule_pref

From: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Date: Wed,  2 Sep 2015 15:03:12 +0200

> This switches IPv6 policy routing to use the shared
> fib_default_rule_pref() function of IPv4 and DECnet. It is also used in
> multicast routing for IPv4 as well as IPv6.
> 
> The motivation for this patch is a complaint about iproute2 behaving
> inconsistent between IPv4 and IPv6 when adding policy rules: Formerly,
> IPv6 rules were assigned a fixed priority of 0x3FFF whereas for IPv4 the
> assigned priority value was decreased with each rule added.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>

All ->default_pref() methods are therefore going to be set to the
default, so just kill off the method entirely and call
fib_default_rule_pref() directly.
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