[ovs-dev] [PATCH] packet: Fix sparse warnings ICMPv6.

[Jesse Gross]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 06:00:08PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> The system defined ICMPv6 header doesn't have sparse annotation,
>> so this adds a definition so that endianness can be checked.
>>
>> Reported-by: Alex Wang <alexw at nicira.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
>
> In some cases we've avoided warnings on system types by replacing that
> type in a header in include/sparse.  Did you consider that approach
> here?

I thought about it but didn't go that direction since I think that we
might want to add more members similar to what was done for ICMP for
IPv4 (although it isn't actually needed yet). But it could go either
way.