[Devel] [PATCH net-2.6.25][NEIGH]: Add a comment describing what a NUD stands for.
Pavel Emelyanov
xemul at openvz.org
Thu Jan 10 07:05:25 PST 2008
When I studied the neighbor code I puzzled over what
the NUD can mean for quite a long time.
Finally I asked Alexey and he said that this was smth
like "neighbor unreachability detection".
Does it worth adding a comment helping future developers
understand what's going on?
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at openvz.org>
---
diff --git a/include/net/neighbour.h b/include/net/neighbour.h
index 09f9fc6..bc34144 100644
--- a/include/net/neighbour.h
+++ b/include/net/neighbour.h
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
#include <net/rtnetlink.h>
+/*
+ * NUD stands for "neighbor unreachability detection"
+ */
+
#define NUD_IN_TIMER (NUD_INCOMPLETE|NUD_REACHABLE|NUD_DELAY|NUD_PROBE)
#define NUD_VALID (NUD_PERMANENT|NUD_NOARP|NUD_REACHABLE|NUD_PROBE|NUD_STALE|NUD_DELAY)
#define NUD_CONNECTED (NUD_PERMANENT|NUD_NOARP|NUD_REACHABLE)
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