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Message-ID: <1926952.1nDu9mPud9@bentobox>
Date:   Mon, 21 Nov 2016 09:16:29 +0100
From:   Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
To:     b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org
Cc:     fgao@...ai8.com, mareklindner@...mailbox.ch, sw@...onwunderlich.de,
        a@...table.cc, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        gfree.wind@...il.com
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH net 1/1] net: batman-adv: Treat NET_XMIT_CN as transmit successfully

On Montag, 21. November 2016 08:39:39 CET fgao@...ai8.com wrote:
> From: Gao Feng <fgao@...ai8.com>
> 
> The tc could return NET_XMIT_CN as one congestion notification, but
> it does not mean the packe is lost. Other modules like ipvlan,

s/packe/packet/

> macvlan, and others treat NET_XMIT_CN as success too.
> 
> So batman-adv should add the NET_XMIT_CN check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@...ai8.com>
> ---
>  net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c | 2 +-
>  net/batman-adv/fragmentation.c         | 2 +-
>  net/batman-adv/routing.c               | 2 +-
>  net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c              | 2 +-
>  4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
[...]

Not sure how the batman-adv maintainers see this - but this patch needs
an additional patch for net-next to also add it to the parts which were
rewritten.

Kind regards,
	Sven
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