From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:26:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:25:53 -0400 Received: from mgw-x2.nokia.com ([131.228.20.22]:57301 "EHLO mgw-x2.nokia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:25:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:22:17 +0300 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Is ip_build_xmit_slow() unused? Message-ID: <20010716162217.A12873@terrapin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: alexey.vyskubov@nokia.com (Alexey Vyskubov) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I have probably stupid question: what is the purpose of ip_build_xmit_slow()? Grepping over linux kernel source tree finds only two entries for ip_build_xmit_slow(): net/ipv4/ip_output.c:static int ip_build_xmit_slow(struct sock *sk, net/ipv4/ip_output.c: return ip_build_xmit_slow(sk,getfrag,frag,length,ipc,rt,flags); Please notice that the second entry is inside ip_build_xmit_slow() definition, i.e. this is recursive call. Is this function really unused? -- Alexey