From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [AX.25 1/2] Introduce struct ax25_sock. Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:36:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20060722.013618.71088903.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20060721152946.GA16317@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:42411 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751223AbWGVIgV (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Jul 2006 04:36:21 -0400 To: ralf@linux-mips.org In-Reply-To: <20060721152946.GA16317@linux-mips.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Ralf Baechle 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 This is very nice work Ralf, but I think it's 2.6.19 material. :-)