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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@trash.net, thaller@redhat.com, hannes@stressinduktion.org,
	vyasevich@gmail.com, dcbw@redhat.com, David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Subject: Re: [patch iproute2 1/2] add support for extended ifa_flags
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 22:20:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131228212018.GA2447@minipsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131228112147.67756b9c@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>

Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 08:21:47PM CET, stephen@networkplumber.org wrote:
>Was about to apply this but found something while reviewing.
>
>On Fri,  6 Dec 2013 09:46:26 +0100
>Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote:
>
>> +	req.ifa.ifa_flags = ifa_flags & 0xff;
>> +	addattr32(&req.n, sizeof(req), IFA_FLAGS, ifa_flags);
>
>I don't like the mystery mask (0xff) here. I think this was to mask
>off private flags. Perhaps a manifest constant should be added to if.h
>lie IFA_F_RDONLY_MASK??

Hmm.. I wanted to emhasize that only 1 byte of value is taken.
But I think that simple "req.ifa.ifa_flags = ifa_flags" should be fine
here.

I will change this and repost.

Thanks!

>
>Plus from an API point of view, hard coding a value (even in #define)
>seems like a problem when future values get added.
>

      reply	other threads:[~2013-12-28 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-06  8:45 [patch net-next 0/2] ipv6: allow temporary address management for user-created addresses Jiri Pirko
2013-12-06  8:45 ` [patch net-next 1/2] ipv6 addrconf: extend ifa_flags to u32 Jiri Pirko
2013-12-06 21:35   ` David Miller
2013-12-07  8:51     ` Jiri Pirko
2013-12-06  8:45 ` [patch net-next 2/2] ipv6 addrconf: introduce IFA_F_MANAGETEMPADDR to tell kernel to manage temporary addresses Jiri Pirko
2013-12-06 21:35   ` David Miller
2013-12-07  3:36   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-12-06  8:46 ` [patch iproute2 1/2] add support for extended ifa_flags Jiri Pirko
2013-12-06  8:46   ` [patch iproute2 2/2] add support for IFA_F_MANAGETEMPADDR Jiri Pirko
2013-12-28 19:27     ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-12-28 19:21   ` [patch iproute2 1/2] add support for extended ifa_flags Stephen Hemminger
2013-12-28 21:20     ` Jiri Pirko [this message]

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