Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] net: add helper for device lookup by destination address

Nilay Shroff <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:40:33 +0530
Newsgroups org.infradead.lists.linux-nvme,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev
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On 7/31/26 4:45 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:46:44 +0530 Nilay Shroff wrote:
>> Add netdev_get_by_addr(), a helper that looks up the routing table to
>> retrieve the network device associated with a destination address. The
>> helper also supports netdev reference tracking.
> 
> This does not explain why you're doing this.
> Please CC the whole series to netdev or write better commit messages.

Yeah sure my bad, I would resend the series including all netdev folks in Cc.

Thanks,
--Nilay