Re: [PATCH]: Cruft fixes

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 04:23:31AM +0200, jamal wrote:
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> This patch removes a bit of cruft.  Please double check.

Sorry, my original judgement was wrong. The RX path uses it to distingush
between old protocols that don't support SMP multithreading yet and new
multithreaded protocols.  Unfortunately this breaks the fastroute packet 
socket detection hack as you noted.

The right fix is to add a flag word to packet_type that distingushes
packet sockets and non locked protocols, and use that instead of the
overloaded data member. Such a flag word would fit nicely between
type and dev, there should be a 2 bytes gap there anyways.


-Andi