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Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 22:37:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: phil@....cc
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v2] net: ipv6: use common fib_default_rule_pref
From: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 12:20:58 +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.
>
> Since then all users of the default_pref field have been converted to
> assign the generic function fib_default_rule_pref(), fib_nl_newrule()
> may just use it directly instead. Therefore get rid of the function
> pointer altogether and make fib_default_rule_pref() static, as it's not
> used outside fib_rules.c anymore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
> ---
> Changes since v1:
> - Folded together with API change and adjusted commit message accordingly.
Applied, thanks.
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