* 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 :)
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