Re: Why is struct ipv6hdr still old-style RFC1883 ?

[kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hello!

> Why is struct ipv6hdr still implementing the old RFC1883 style 
> 4-bit prio and 24-bit flowlabel fields instead of the RFC2460
> 8-bit tc and 20-bit flowlabel fields?

Because none of them are used by clear reason (byte wide filed
spanning byte boundary is a non-sense).

0th word of header is accesed only as whole.


> Is this just some legacy which nobody got around to change? If this is 
> the case, I'm going to update this. Are there any other reasons?

If update consists in removing these bitfield crap and replacing
with single word, I see no problems.

Alexey