In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:52:08 +0100 (CET)), Jan
Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
>
> On Jan 18 2008 10:26, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
> >> -#define IN_EXPERIMENTAL(a) ((((long int) (a)) & 0xf0000000) ==
> >> 0xf0000000)
> >> -#define IN_BADCLASS(a) IN_EXPERIMENTAL((a))
> >
> >No, please keep these macros.
> >
> >> @@ -264,7 +261,7 @@ static inline bool ipv4_is_local_multicast(__be32 addr)
> >>
> >> static inline bool ipv4_is_badclass(__be32 addr)
> >> {
> >> - return (addr & htonl(0xf0000000)) == htonl(0xf0000000);
> >> + return addr == 0xFFFFFFFF;
> >> }
> >>
> >
> >To (un)align the IN_BADCLASS macro and ipv6_is_badclass() definition,
>
> Unalign? IPv6? "Limited" broadcast?
Sorry, ipv4_is_badclass().
Assuming IN_BADCLASS() is still there, we should not reuse the name
of "ipv6_is_badclass" because the their meanings are different.
> -static inline bool ipv4_is_badclass(__be32 addr)
> +static inline bool ipv4_is_broadcast(__be32 addr)
> {
I'm just afraid that people might think ipv4_is_broadcast
is for testing subnet broadcast address.
255.255.255.255 is "limited broadcast address"
(vs subnet broadcast address, which can be forwarded by routers).
--yoshfuji
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