This provides two functions to
 * reconcile preference lists (with appropriate return codes) and
 * reorder the preference list if successful reconciliation changed the
   preferred value.

The patch also removes the old code for processing SP/NN Change options, since
new code to process these is mostly there already; related references have been
commented out.

The code for processing Change options follows in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>