netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/10] ipv6: Refactor nexthop selection helpers during a fib lookup

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Message-Id: <20190411.142421.605117681551474130.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:24:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsahern@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, idosch@...lanox.com, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/10] ipv6: Refactor nexthop selection
 helpers during a fib lookup

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Date: Tue,  9 Apr 2019 14:41:09 -0700

> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> 
> IPv6 has a fib6_nh embedded within each fib6_info and a separate
> fib6_info for each path in a multipath route. A side effect is that
> a fib6_info is passed all the way down the stack when selecting a path
> on a fib lookup. Refactor the fib lookup functions and associated
> helper functions to take a fib6_nh when appropriate to enable IPv6
> to work with nexthop objects where the fib6_nh is not directly part
> of a fib entry.

Series applied, thanks David.