Re: [RESEND][PATCH] net/ipv6/netfilter warnings removal

Harald Welte (laforge@netfilter.org)
Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:12:06 +0200


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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:50:44PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 05:38, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> > And here is the patch to remove those by using casts.
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> It's kind of rediculious that these modules don't use the
> existing AH/ESP/etc. header structure types (ip_auth_header et
> al.)

It's because they predate any AH/ESP stuff in the linux kernel.
I'm not saying this as an excuse, just as an explanation.

Kisza: Can you work on making the changes suggested by DaveM?

> Thanks.

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- Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> http://www.netfilter.org/
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"Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early
architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie

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