netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] sock: struct proto hash function may error

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Date:	Thu, 04 Feb 2016 21:34:03 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Craig Gallek <kraigatgoog@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] sock: struct proto hash function may error

On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 10:35 -0500, Craig Gallek wrote:
> From: Craig Gallek <kraig@...gle.com>
> 
> In order to support fast reuseport lookups in TCP, the hash function
> defined in struct proto must be capable of returning an error code.
> This patch changes the function signature of all related hash functions
> to return an integer and handles or propagates this return value at
> all call sites.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Craig Gallek <kraig@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>