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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
To: viro@ftp•linux.org.uk
Cc: herbert@gondor•apana.org.au, torvalds@osdl•org, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipip and ip_gre encapsulation bugs
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:03:22 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060913.210322.78723655.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060914011637.GH29920@ftp.linux.org.uk>

From: Al Viro <viro@ftp•linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:16:37 +0100

> OK, after rereading the RFC...  Pointer field is one octet, indeed.
> Avoiding all swapping will be tough - icmp_send() takes 32bit argument,
> net-endian.

Thanks for the fix Al, but did you notice that this code is totally
unused?  It's a code block commented out by a large ifdef, such that
the code block is never enabled and serves as example code we
could use if some limitations in the current internet did not
exist. :-)

But thanks anyways, I'll queue this up for 2.6.19

      reply	other threads:[~2006-09-14  4:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-12 16:50 ipip and ip_gre encapsulation bugs Al Viro
2006-09-14  0:23 ` Herbert Xu
2006-09-14  1:16   ` Al Viro
2006-09-14  4:03     ` David Miller [this message]

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