From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][IPV6]: Make sure fib6_rule_lookup doesn't return NULL
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:48:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060809094818.GW14627@postel.suug.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44D9ADFB.90200@tcs.hut.fi>
* Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi> 2006-08-09 12:42
> Ok, it might require quite big changes to the existing code, but if
> someone is willing to take a look at it I wouldn't be against it :-)
I'll provide a patch soon.
> You know, I'm starting to think we could perhaps get rid of
> ip6_null_entry altogether. I at least don't really see any good reason
> to keep it after such changes.
>
> This would apply even more strongly to the new ip6_prohibit_entry and
> ip6_blk_hole_entry as they don't even serve as routing table dummy entries.
Absolutely, that's the whole point from my perspective, they're
only holding an error code and somewhat hiding error handling.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-09 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-08 22:05 [PATCH][IPV6]: Make sure fib6_rule_lookup doesn't return NULL Ville Nuorvala
2006-08-08 22:16 ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-08 23:43 ` David Miller
2006-08-09 6:31 ` Ville Nuorvala
2006-08-09 6:34 ` David Miller
2006-08-09 8:36 ` Ville Nuorvala
2006-08-09 9:23 ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-09 9:42 ` Ville Nuorvala
2006-08-09 9:48 ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2006-08-09 10:45 ` Ville Nuorvala
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