From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [AX.25 1/2] Introduce struct ax25_sock.
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:36:18 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060722.013618.71088903.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060721152946.GA16317@linux-mips.org>
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:29:46 -0400
> Upto now AX.25 was using two separate structures for it's sockets. One,
> ax25_cb described the entire actual AX.25 connection. The other was
> the standard struct sock.
>
> This patch combines both into struct ax25_sock which is more in line with
> current practice. An AX.25 speciality was that a ax25_cb could exist
> without a struct sock referencing it. Keep that alive for now by keeping
> the old struct sock *sk member of ax25_cb in struct ax25_sock. This now
> just has become a struct-internal pointer.
>
> Aside of wanrouter AX.25 has also been the last member of struct
> sock.sk_protinfo. With net/wanrouter being considered hopeless code and
> an application-level solution being prefered these days this means we now
> can delete sk_protinfo.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This is very nice work Ralf, but I think it's 2.6.19 material.
:-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-22 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-21 15:29 [AX.25 1/2] Introduce struct ax25_sock Ralf Baechle
2006-07-21 15:36 ` [AX.25 2/2] Fix reference counting by socket timers Ralf Baechle
2006-07-21 17:26 ` [AX.25 1/2] Introduce struct ax25_sock Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-07-22 8:36 ` David Miller [this message]
2006-07-22 12:13 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-07-23 0:05 ` David Miller
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