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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: christophe@saout.de, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [BUG 2.6.12-rc4] IPv6 xfrm tunnel oops with large packets
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 17:34:35 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050522073435.GA15867@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050522.051817.122678688.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 05:18:17AM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ wrote:
>
> > BTW, icmpv6_send seems to ignore its dev argument altogether.
> > Any reason why we can't just use it instead of skb->dev?
> 
> (After looking into icmpv6_send() usages,)
> I don't know the reason why we needed the last argument "dev".
> It seems that we already had it at the time of 2.2.16.
> Probably, we can remove it.

In a number of places (I've just created another one with my patch :)
we are setting skb->dev specifically for icmpv6_send.  If we make
icmpv6_send use its dev argument instead of skb->dev then we can
avoid those settings.

Cheers,
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-22  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1116702611.14509.10.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net>
2005-05-21 19:49 ` [BUG 2.6.12-rc4] IPv6 xfrm tunnel oops with large packets Herbert Xu
2005-05-21 20:18   ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-05-22  7:34     ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2005-05-23 20:11     ` David S. Miller
2005-05-21 21:49   ` Christophe Saout

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