Re: [PATCH net-next] pppoe: drop PFC frames

From: qingfang . deng

Date: Mon Apr 06 2026 - 23:29:09 EST


Hi,


April 6, 2026 at 10:48 PM, Simon Horman wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I think it would be best to add/use a #define rather than
> open coding the magic value 0x01. And perhaps expanding
> the comment to note that skb->data[0] is the first byte
> of the PPP protocol would be nice too.

The field does not have a canonical name. As per RFC1661, the LSB of the
first octet is used to test if the protocol field is compressed, and the
same code snippet is used in ppp_generic.c.

I could instead add a helper function:

static inline bool ppp_skb_is_compressed_proto(const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
return skb->data[0] & 0x01;
}

What do you think?

Regards,
Qingfang