On 2011-12-14 14:46, Jesper Christensen wrote: > Sorry about that. > > The use case is fast failover where a active ip address (on the same > subnet) can be brought up on an interface without having to re-solicit > the hw addresses that were gathered while the interface was standby (had > a standby ip address).
Sounds reasonable. Just fold the motivation into some v2 of your patch. Jan > > /Jesper > > > On 2011-12-14 14:24, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Please follow the format >> >> [PATCH] Subject line >> >> Patch description lines, specifically explaining the "why". >> >> Signed-off >> (see also >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches;h=689e2371095cc5dfea9927120009341f369159aa;hb=f6f94e2ab1b33f0082ac22d71f66385a60d8157f#l297) >> >> The comments below apply if you can explain the use case to me. The >> standard Linux networking stack seems to behave like current RTnet. >> >> On 2011-12-13 17:22, Jesper Christensen wrote: >>> >>> diff --git a/stack/ipv4/af_inet.c b/stack/ipv4/af_inet.c >>> index 8b394be..18754cf 100644 >>> --- a/stack/ipv4/af_inet.c >>> +++ b/stack/ipv4/af_inet.c >>> @@ -239,7 +239,16 @@ static void rt_ip_ifup(struct rtnet_device *rtdev, >>> int i; >>> >>> >>> - rt_ip_route_del_all(rtdev); /* cleanup routing table */ >>> + /* Only delete our own address if the new address is >>> + on the same subnet */ >>> + if (rtdev->broadcast_ip == up_cmd->args.up.broadcast_ip) >>> + rt_ip_route_del_host(rtdev->local_ip, rtdev); >>> + else >>> + rt_ip_route_del_all(rtdev); /* cleanup routing table */ >>> + >>> + /* Delete our loopback route for the device */ >> The following block should be moved into the selective deletion path >> above (as del_all already does it for us). >> >>> + if ((tmp = rtdev_get_loopback()) != NULL) >> Please split up assignment and comparison into two lines (yes, that used >> to be done differently in past here as well). >> >>> + rt_ip_route_del_host(rtdev->local_ip, tmp); >> rtdev_dereference(tmp) is missing. >> >>> >>> if (up_cmd->args.up.ip_addr != 0xFFFFFFFF) { >>> rtdev->local_ip = up_cmd->args.up.ip_addr; >> Thanks, >> Jan >> > -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cloud Computing - Latest Buzzword or a Glimpse of the Future? This paper surveys cloud computing today: What are the benefits? Why are businesses embracing it? What are its payoffs and pitfalls? http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51425149/ _______________________________________________ RTnet-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rtnet-developers
