Merge branch 'neigh_cleanups'

Eric W. Biederman says:

====================
Neighbour table and ax25 cleanups

While looking at the neighbour table to what it would take to allow
using next hops in a different address family than the current packets
I found a partial resolution for my issues and I stumbled upon some
work that makes the neighbour table code easier to understand and
maintain.

Long ago in a much younger kernel ax25 found a hack to use
dev_rebuild_header to transmit it's packets instead of going through
what today is ndo_start_xmit.

When the neighbour table was rewritten into it's current form the ax25
code was such a challenge that arp_broken_ops appeard in arp.c and
neigh_compat_output appeared in neighbour.c to keep the ax25 hack alive.

With a little bit of work I was able to remove some of the hack that
is the ax25 transmit path for ip packets and to isolate what remains
into a slightly more readable piece of code in ax25_ip.c.  Removing the
need for the generic code to worry about ax25 special cases.

After cleaning up the old ax25 hacks I also performed a little bit of
work on neigh_resolve_output to remove the need for a dst entry and to
ensure cached headers get a deterministic protocol value in their cached
header.   This guarantees that a cached header will not be different
depending on which protocol of packet is transmitted, and it allows
packets to be transmitted that don't have a dst entry.  There remains
a small amount of code that takes advantage of when packets have a dst
entry but that is something different.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/firewire/net.c b/drivers/firewire/net.c
index 2c68da1ceeee..f4ea80d602f7 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/net.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/net.c
@@ -237,18 +237,6 @@ static int fwnet_header_create(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net,
 	return -net->hard_header_len;
 }
 
-static int fwnet_header_rebuild(struct sk_buff *skb)
-{
-	struct fwnet_header *h = (struct fwnet_header *)skb->data;
-
-	if (get_unaligned_be16(&h->h_proto) == ETH_P_IP)
-		return arp_find((unsigned char *)&h->h_dest, skb);
-
-	dev_notice(&skb->dev->dev, "unable to resolve type %04x addresses\n",
-		   be16_to_cpu(h->h_proto));
-	return 0;
-}
-
 static int fwnet_header_cache(const struct neighbour *neigh,
 			      struct hh_cache *hh, __be16 type)
 {
@@ -282,7 +270,6 @@ static int fwnet_header_parse(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned char *haddr)
 
 static const struct header_ops fwnet_header_ops = {
 	.create         = fwnet_header_create,
-	.rebuild        = fwnet_header_rebuild,
 	.cache		= fwnet_header_cache,
 	.cache_update	= fwnet_header_cache_update,
 	.parse          = fwnet_header_parse,