* Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006-08-16 21:57 > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:40:03PM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > > > > It was added to help quagga identify which route modifications > > are self caused. It's not possible to use rtm_protocol for this > > purpose as other applications can delete routes added by quagga. > > Actually it's not that bad. I just checked the quagga source and > the stuff it needs was already provided anyway, even before that > change.
If I recall correctly the quagga folks asked to get the same behaviour for IPv6 routes as it was already done for IPv4 around the time of that bogus changeset. > In fact, the really bad bits in the changeset have already been > reverted by Alexey back in February :) Right, but he forgot the bits in IPv6 which I now fixed. The changeset introducing those current->pid uses was definitely simply wrong. I'm not questioning that :) - 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