From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:02:57 +0800

> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 05:17:17PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > 
> > Could you submit a 2.6.23 version of just the ipv4 fix?
> > It might be interesting to determine why it was omitted,
> > perhaps it was an oversight, and it probably predates the
> > addition of skb_reset_*().
> 
> OK I double-checked and it isn't necessary at all for IPv4 as
> the mode output function already sets the correct value in it.
> 
> It's needed for IPv6 because the mode output functions there
> uses it to store a pointer to the NH pointer.
> 
> So no changes are necessary.

Thanks for doing this research.
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