route: Remove unused ifa_anycast field

The field was supposed to allow the creation of an anycast route by assigning an anycast address to an address prefix. It was never implemented so this field is unused and serves no purpose. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
wangbin579 · Jun 3, 2008 · ab32cd7 · ab32cd7
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diff --git a/include/linux/inetdevice.h b/include/linux/inetdevice.h
@@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ struct in_ifaddr
 	__be32			ifa_address;
 	__be32			ifa_mask;
 	__be32			ifa_broadcast;
-	__be32			ifa_anycast;
 	unsigned char		ifa_scope;
 	unsigned char		ifa_flags;
 	unsigned char		ifa_prefixlen;

diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ static const struct nla_policy ifa_ipv4_policy[IFA_MAX+1] = {
 	[IFA_LOCAL]     	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
 	[IFA_ADDRESS]   	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
 	[IFA_BROADCAST] 	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
-	[IFA_ANYCAST]   	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
 	[IFA_LABEL]     	= { .type = NLA_STRING, .len = IFNAMSIZ - 1 },
 };
 
@@ -536,9 +535,6 @@ static struct in_ifaddr *rtm_to_ifaddr(struct net *net, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	if (tb[IFA_BROADCAST])
 		ifa->ifa_broadcast = nla_get_be32(tb[IFA_BROADCAST]);
 
-	if (tb[IFA_ANYCAST])
-		ifa->ifa_anycast = nla_get_be32(tb[IFA_ANYCAST]);
-
 	if (tb[IFA_LABEL])
 		nla_strlcpy(ifa->ifa_label, tb[IFA_LABEL], IFNAMSIZ);
 	else
@@ -745,7 +741,6 @@ int devinet_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
 				break;
 			inet_del_ifa(in_dev, ifap, 0);
 			ifa->ifa_broadcast = 0;
-			ifa->ifa_anycast = 0;
 			ifa->ifa_scope = 0;
 		}
 
@@ -1113,7 +1108,6 @@ static inline size_t inet_nlmsg_size(void)
 	       + nla_total_size(4) /* IFA_ADDRESS */
 	       + nla_total_size(4) /* IFA_LOCAL */
 	       + nla_total_size(4) /* IFA_BROADCAST */
-	       + nla_total_size(4) /* IFA_ANYCAST */
 	       + nla_total_size(IFNAMSIZ); /* IFA_LABEL */
 }
 
@@ -1143,9 +1137,6 @@ static int inet_fill_ifaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct in_ifaddr *ifa,
 	if (ifa->ifa_broadcast)
 		NLA_PUT_BE32(skb, IFA_BROADCAST, ifa->ifa_broadcast);
 
-	if (ifa->ifa_anycast)
-		NLA_PUT_BE32(skb, IFA_ANYCAST, ifa->ifa_anycast);
-
 	if (ifa->ifa_label[0])
 		NLA_PUT_STRING(skb, IFA_LABEL, ifa->ifa_label);