In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:27:01 +0100), Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> YOSHIFUJI Hideaki wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:14:26 +0100), > > Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > > > >>The easiest way would be to store nhoff somewhere in the skb and > >>use it to continue at the next header. But I still hope there is > >>a way without keeping data in the skb. > > > > > > We've coded up this. > > How about this patch instead? It eliminates the nhoffp argument > to IPv6 protocol handlers by storing it in the IP6CB, which allows > to call ip6_input_finish a second time and have it skip already > parsed headers and also gets rid of the manual hopopts skipping. The idea to store IP6CB itself seems sane to me. BTW, we're now using full of skb->cb (and we are even exceeding it w/ mobile-ipv6 extensions)... --yoshfuji - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
