Re: [PATCH net-next] ax25: Stop using magic neighbour cache operations.

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 09:41:47 -0600

> 
> Before the ax25 stack calls dev_queue_xmit it always calls
> ax25_type_trans which sets skb->protocol to ETH_P_AX25.
> 
> Which means that by looking at the protocol type it is possible to
> detect IP packets that have not been munged by the ax25 stack in
> ndo_start_xmit and call a function to munge them.
> 
> Rename ax25_neigh_xmit to ax25_ip_xmit and tweak the return type and
> value to be appropriate for an ndo_start_xmit function.
> 
> Update all of the ax25 devices to test the protocol type for ETH_P_IP
> and return ax25_ip_xmit as the first thing they do.  This preserves
> the existing semantics of IP packet processing, but the timing will be
> a little different as the IP packets now pass through the qdisc layer
> before reaching the ax25 ip packet processing.
> 
> Remove the now unnecessary ax25 neighbour table operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Another nice cleanup, applied, thanks Eric.