From: "Nicolas de Pesloüan" <nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ja@ssi.bg, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: Make skb->skb_iif always track skb->dev
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:43:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <500F16FD.9070506@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120723.164542.1890653324956444632.davem@davemloft.net>
Le 24/07/2012 01:45, David Miller a écrit :
>
> Make it follow device decapsulation, from things such as VLAN and
> bonding.
>
> The stuff that actually cares about pre-demuxed device pointers, is
> handled by the "orig_dev" variable in __netif_receive_skb(). And
> the only consumer of that is the po->origdev feature of AF_PACKET
> sockets.
>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller<davem@davemloft.net>
Jiri tried to remove this orig_dev usage in af_packet in march 2011, without success, by using the
value of skb_iif instead :-)
In case my opinion might be relevant:
Reviewed-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Nicolas.
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2012-07-23 23:45 [PATCH 2/3] net: Make skb->skb_iif always track skb->dev David Miller
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