netdev - RE: [PATCH 2/6] netfilter: decnet: switch hook PFs to nfproto

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Date:	Mon, 14 May 2012 17:06:50 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
cc:	Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@...labora.co.uk>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Vincent Sanders <vincent.sanders@...labora.co.uk>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@...labora.co.uk>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/6] netfilter: decnet: switch hook PFs to nfproto

On Monday 2012-05-14 16:18, David Laight wrote:

> 
>> NFPROTO_* constants were usually equal to PF_* constants but it is not
>> necessary and it will waste less memory if we don't do so 
>> (see commit 7e9c6e
>> "netfilter: Introduce NFPROTO_* constants")
>...
>>  
>>  static struct nf_hook_ops dnrmg_ops __read_mostly = {
>>  	.hook		= dnrmg_hook,
>> -	.pf		= PF_DECnet,
>> +	.pf		= NFPROTO_DECNET,
>>  	.hooknum	= NF_DN_ROUTE,
>>  	.priority	= NF_DN_PRI_DNRTMSG,
>>  };
>
>Might it be worth renaming the .pf member to (say) .nfproto
>to help avoid confusion?

Yes that seems like a sensible thing.
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