From: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc>
Date: Wed,  9 Sep 2015 14:20:56 +0200

> This switches IPv6 policy routing to use the shared
> fib_default_rule_pref() function of IPv4 and DECnet. It is also used in
> multicast routing for IPv4 as well as IPv6.
> 
> The motivation for this patch is a complaint about iproute2 behaving
> inconsistent between IPv4 and IPv6 when adding policy rules: Formerly,
> IPv6 rules were assigned a fixed priority of 0x3FFF whereas for IPv4 the
> assigned priority value was decreased with each rule added.
> 
> Since then all users of the default_pref field have been converted to
> assign the generic function fib_default_rule_pref(), fib_nl_newrule()
> may just use it directly instead. Therefore get rid of the function
> pointer altogether and make fib_default_rule_pref() static, as it's not
> used outside fib_rules.c anymore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc>

This looks a lot better, applied, thanks.
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