On 10/2/07, Gerrit Renker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [DCCP]: Auxiliary function for smallest-fit option lengths
>
> This introduces a function to determine the smallest-fit data type to carry 
> options,
> which is used by the feature-negotiation code to insert option values.
>
> While doing this, I found that the same code is required to set the NDP 
> length,
> whose length is variable between 1..6 bytes (RFC 4340, 7.7).
>
> There seem to be remains of the old code base when apparently NDP count was 
> only 3
> bytes long. I have removed the annotations, as well as an unused constant 
> limiting
> the maximum NDP value to 3 bytes, and added a FIXME to increase the data type 
> for
> NDP up to u64. I didn't want to add this to this patch also, since various 
> other
> parts (e.g. CCID3) implicitly rely on u32. For the moment, u32 seems to more 
> than
> ample anyway, so the FIXME could even remain until there is a `high-speed' 
> CCID.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Acked-by: Ian McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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