[Bridge] [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: bridge: change unicast boolean to exact pkt_type

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Aug 30 14:56:23 UTC 2016


On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:08:58 +0200
Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:

>  /* br_forward.c */
> +enum {
> +	BR_PKT_UNICAST,
> +	BR_PKT_MULTICAST,
> +	BR_PKT_BROADCAST
> +};
>  int br_dev_queue_push_xmit(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
>  void br_forward(const struct net_bridge_port *to, struct sk_buff *skb,
>  		bool local_rcv, bool local_orig);
>  int br_forward_finish(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
>  void br_flood(struct net_bridge *br, struct sk_buff *skb,
> -	      bool unicast, bool local_rcv, bool local_orig);
> +	      int pkt_type, bool local_rcv, bool local_orig);

Why not make pkt_type an enum value, you already have that infrastructure there.

enum br_pkt_type {
	BR_PKT_UNICAST,
...
};

void br_flood(struct net_bridge *br, struct sk_buff *skb,
              enum br_pkt_type pkt_type, ...



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