netdev - Re: [PATCH] xt_quota: don't copy quota back to userspace

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Date:	Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:43:25 +0800
From:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xt_quota: don't copy quota back to userspace

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> Le vendredi 23 juillet 2010 à 12:54 +0800, Changli Gao a écrit :
>> This patch should be applied after my another patch:
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/59729/
>>
>> xt_quota: don't copy quota back to userspace
>>
>> In nowadays, table entries are per-cpu variables, so it don't make any sense to
>> copy quota back to one of the variable instances. To keep things simple, this
>> patch undo the copy.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
>
> This looks the wrong way to fix this problem.
>
> Also Changli, could you please _not_ include the title of your patches
> inside the Changelog ? This is useless.
>

Thanks. I remembered  some document mentioned a summary line was
needed. I'll follow your advice.


-- 
Regards,
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@...il.com)
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