netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: Fix compiler warning.

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Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:53:58 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Laurent Chavey <chavey@...gle.com>
cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Netfilter Developers <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: Fix compiler warning.


On Donnerstag 2009-12-10 18:50, Laurent Chavey wrote:
>
>good point.  I  agree with the need for the exception, I would just
>like it to be more explicit in the code itself (like a turn off
>check around that particular statement) so we do not have to scrub
>thru the compiler output to filter out good / bad warning. question:
>  why do we not force the timestamp in the skb before going thru the
>chain ?

Because it is probably too expensive to do, unless you employ
things like xt_time?
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