netdev - Re: dynamically allocated dst

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Date:	Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:34:02 +0100
From:	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	benjamin.thery@...l.net
Subject: Re: dynamically allocated dst_ops

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> They are bogus and should be implanted into struct net directly.

Why they are bogus ?

> In garbage collector hook, just use container_of() (once) to get struct net.
> ->dst_net is useless after that.

Yep, that looks like a better solution.

> I'm going to use this trick for xfrm.
> 
> And if someone has ideas on how to overcome header difficulties, please,
> submit a patch.

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