From: Richard Alpe <richard.a...@ericsson.com> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 08:19:56 +0100
> Changing certain link attributes (link tolerance and link priority) > from the TIPC management tool is supposed to automatically take > effect at both endpoints of the affected link. > > Currently the media address is not instantiated for the link and is > used uninstantiated when crafting protocol messages designated for the > peer endpoint. This means that changing a link property currently > results in the property being changed on the local machine but the > protocol message designated for the peer gets lost. Resulting in > property discrepancy between the endpoints. > > In this patch we resolve this by using the media address from the > link entry and using the bearer transmit function to send it. Hence, > we can now eliminate the redundant function tipc_link_prot_xmit() and > the redundant field tipc_link::media_addr. > > Fixes: 2af5ae372a4b (tipc: clean up unused code and structures) > Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.ma...@ericsson.com> > Reported-by: Jason Hu <huzhiji...@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.a...@ericsson.com> Applied.
