Re: [RFC 16/16] ieee802154: 6lowpan: remove packet type to host

[Stefan Schmidt <stefan@osg.samsung.com>]

Hello.

On 03/08/15 08:23, Alexander Aring wrote:
> This patch remove the packet_type to host and leave the mac pkt_type.
> By running 'grep -r "pkt_type" net/ipv6', the IPv6 stack will evaluate
> this value for PACKET_BROADCAST. Instead of overwriting this value we
> will leave the mac value there which is broadcasts if the mac frame was
> a broadcast frame.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring<alex.aring@gmail.com>
> ---
>   net/ieee802154/6lowpan/rx.c | 1 -
>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/rx.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/rx.c
> index b1a9d14..1d9866a 100644
> --- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/rx.c
> +++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan/rx.c
> @@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ static int lowpan_give_skb_to_device(struct sk_buff *skb)
>   	int ret;
>   
>   	skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IPV6);
> -	skb->pkt_type = PACKET_HOST;
>   
>   	ret = netif_rx(skb);
>   	/* kfree_skb handled by netif_rx, so RX_DROP on failure */

Reviewed-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@osg.samsung.com>

regards
Stefan Schmidt