* Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011116 18:02] wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
> [..]
> > What is needed is obviously a 'per packet' storage location
> > for those things, defined in a "per protocol family" manner.
> >
> > Luigi has already tried this scheme by defining a
> > dummynet specific mbuf type that can be prepended to the
> > front of packets. What I suggest is to extend this
> > to defining a MT_PROTOSTORAGE. (or similar) mbuf type
> > that generic networking code is educated to ignore,
> > and that protocols can use to pass packet-specific state
> > information from one place to another.
>
> Uhh.. no thanks. Whatever you do, do *NOT* abuse the mbuf system
> for this. We went to a lot of trouble (well, Garrett specifically)
> to rid the stacks of this obscenity. Do *NOT* generalize it and undo
> it. MT_DUMMYNET must die, not be propagated elsewhere.
>
> If you want to have some general storage mechnaism, do *not* use mbufs
> for it.
*cough*
kthread_setspecific()
*cough*
kthread_getspecific()
*cough*
or just fix the code to pass this around as an extra paramter.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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