From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dshwatrz@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fa_type and fib_info - a question
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:17:44 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130627.161744.674336032974965021.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJJAcoeMwSTbSPCQYJa8e5ZNVqWRkP63PzLd3S2bAquD5uZk4g@mail.gmail.com>
From: David Shwatrz <dshwatrz@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:16:12 +0300
> Why does fib_alias contain an fa_type member and also fib_info contain
> a fib_type member? A fib_alias must refer to some fib_info object via
> the fa_info pointer. Are there cases when fa_type can differ from
> fib_type? or is it so only for some legacy reason?
It's just a simplification that hasn't been done yet. They should
both be exactly the same and be derived from cfg->fc_type.
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2013-06-27 19:16 fa_type and fib_info - a question David Shwatrz
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