netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next v3 1/6] net_sched: remove get_stats from tc_action

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Date:	Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:21:42 -0000
From:	"David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	"Cong Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	"Jamal Hadi Salim" <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next v3 1/6] net_sched: remove get_stats from tc_action_ops

> From: Cong Wang
> 
> It is not used.
...
> --- a/include/net/act_api.h
> +++ b/include/net/act_api.h
> @@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ struct tc_action_ops {
>  	__u32 	capab;  /* capabilities includes 4 bit version */
>  	struct module		*owner;
>  	int     (*act)(struct sk_buff *, const struct tc_action *, struct tcf_result *);
> -	int     (*get_stats)(struct sk_buff *, struct tc_action *);
>  	int     (*dump)(struct sk_buff *, struct tc_action *, int, int);
>  	int     (*cleanup)(struct tc_action *, int bind);
>  	int     (*lookup)(struct tc_action *, u32);

Deleting a field out of the middle of a list of function pointers
seems dangerous.

	David



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