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Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/15] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table
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From: Sven Eckelmann <sven-KaDOiPu9UxWEi8DpZVb4nw@public.gmane.org>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 07:34:12 +0200

> _You_ were the person that declined the pull request because _you_ wanted to 
> rewrite the ARP handling. So _you_ are the person that has the insight in 
> _your_ plans. Either _you_ tell us what is _your_ problem with it or _you_ 
> will have to point us to a person that knows _you_.

If I say that you must not use ARP nor neighbour layer internals, it
doesn't mean that I have to come up with the alternative
implementation for you.

Now, you can ask others on the netdev list for suggestions, but you
can't expect me to be the direct and only responder on things like
that.