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From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: ipv6_chk_acast_addr remove unused loop
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:48:04 +0100
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David Stevens wrote:
> NACK.
> 
> Daniel,
>         This code is part of the in-kernel API for anycast, which is 
> intended
> to be the same as for multicast. By removing support for NULL there, 
> you're
> making a special case for the anycast code that isn't there in the 
> multicast
> code (can't support a NULL dev), and you really aren't buying all that 
> much for it.

I was hesitating to send this patch exactly for the reason you are 
explaining. Apparently I did the bad choice :)

Thanks.
	-- Daniel