[Devel] Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25][NEIGH]: Add a comment describing what a NUD stands for.

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Thu Jan 10 22:37:49 PST 2008


From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at openvz.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:05:25 +0300

> 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>

NUD is a common acronym in the IPV6 RFCs and various books
on the topic, but it doesn't hurt to add this comment so I
applied this patch thanks.




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