netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/9] genetlink: reduce ops size and complexity (v2)

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Date:	Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:53:13 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wimax@...el.com,
	bsingharora@...il.com, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	alex.bluesman.smirnov@...il.com, dbaryshkov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] genetlink: reduce ops size and complexity (v2)

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:18:35 +0100

> We could instead register an array of pointers to the groups:
> 
> static const struct mcast_group *my_groups[] = {
> 	&my_foo_mcast_group,
> 	...
> };
> 
> and pass this to the family - that'd still be less space (one pointer
> for each group rather than two in a linked list) and still allow all
> groups and this array to be const, but it's not quite as big a
> saving ...
> 
> Thoughts?

This idea sounds fine.  I don't even thing the array indexing is
odd, especially if we can have named mnenomics for the indices
or similar.
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