Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: Make skb->skb_iif always track skb->dev

From: Nicolas de Pesloüan<[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:43:25 +0200

Le 24/07/2012 01:45, David Miller a écrit :
>
> Make it follow device decapsulation, from things such as VLAN and
> bonding.
>
> The stuff that actually cares about pre-demuxed device pointers, is
> handled by the "orig_dev" variable in __netif_receive_skb().  And
> the only consumer of that is the po->origdev feature of AF_PACKET
> sockets.
>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller<[email-masked]>

Jiri tried to remove this orig_dev usage in af_packet in march 2011, without success, by using the 
value of skb_iif instead :-)

In case my opinion might be relevant:

Reviewed-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <[email-masked]>

	Nicolas.