[Devel] Re: [PATCH 1/6 net-2.6.25] IPv4 RAW: Compact the API for the kernel

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Mon Nov 19 22:35:22 PST 2007


From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at openvz.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:05:59 +0300

> The raw sockets functions are explicitly used from 
> inside the kernel in two places:
> 
> 1. in ip_local_deliver_finish to intercept skb-s
> 2. in icmp_error
> 
> For this purposes many functions and even data structures,
> that are naturally internal for raw protocol, are exported.
> 
> Compact the API to two functions and hide all the other
> (including hash table and rwlock) inside the net/ipv4/raw.c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at openvz.org>

Applied, thanks Pavel.




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