netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ipv6: add new struct ipcm6

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Message-Id: <20160503.162001.2049403211410235502.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 03 May 2016 16:20:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	weiwan@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ipv6: add new struct ipcm6_cookie

From: Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
Date: Mon,  2 May 2016 21:40:07 -0700

> From: Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
> 
> In the sendmsg function of UDP, raw, ICMP and l2tp sockets, we use local
> variables like hlimits, tclass, opt and dontfrag and pass them to corresponding
> functions like ip6_make_skb, ip6_append_data and xxx_push_pending_frames.
> This is not a good practice and makes it hard to add new parameters.
> This fix introduces a new struct ipcm6_cookie similar to ipcm_cookie in
> ipv4 and include the above mentioned variables. And we only pass the
> pointer to this structure to corresponding functions. This makes it easier
> to add new parameters in the future and makes the function cleaner.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.