netdev - Re: [PATCH] XFRM: remove redundant parameter "int dir" in struct xfrm

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Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:23:09 +0800
From:	Fan Du <fan.du@...driver.com>
To:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
CC:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] XFRM: remove redundant parameter "int dir" in struct
 xfrm_mgr.acquire



On 2012年08月13日 15:08, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 02:25:57PM +0800, Fan Du wrote:
>>
>>   static int xfrm_send_acquire(struct xfrm_state *x, struct xfrm_tmpl *xt,
>> -			     struct xfrm_policy *xp, int dir)
>> +			     struct xfrm_policy *xp)
>>   {
>>   	struct net *net = xs_net(x);
>>   	struct sk_buff *skb;
>> @@ -2614,7 +2614,7 @@ static int xfrm_send_acquire(struct xfrm_state *x, struct xfrm_tmpl *xt,
>>   	if (skb == NULL)
>>   		return -ENOMEM;
>>
>> -	if (build_acquire(skb, x, xt, xp, dir)<  0)
>> +	if (build_acquire(skb, x, xt, xp, XFRM_POLICY_OUT)<  0)
>>   		BUG();
>
> xfrm_send_acquire() is the only caller of build_acquire().
> So if you remove the dir parameter from xfrm_send_acquire(),
> you can remove it from build_acquire() too.
>
Yep, looks like we can only remove "dir" at build_acquire, not into
copy_to_user_policy anymore :)

I will adopt your approach in v2 if Dave say *YES* about this patch.
thanks anyway.

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Love each day!
--fan
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