linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 2.6.17] net/ipv6/udp.c: remove duplicate udp_get

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Message-Id: <20060826.200716.85410384.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:07:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2.6.17] net/ipv6/udp.c: remove duplicate udp_get_port
 code

From: gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:25:46 +0100

> [NET]: UDPv4 and UDPv6 use an almost identical version of the get_port function,
> which is unnecessary since the (long) code differs in only one if-statement.
> 
> This patch creates one common function which is called by udp_v4_get_port() and
> udp_v6_get_port(). As a result,
>   * duplicated code is removed
>   * udp_port_rover and local port lookup can now be removed from udp.h
>   * further savings follow since the same function will be used by UDP-Litev4 
>     and UDP-Litev6
> 
> In contrast to the patch sent in response to Yoshifujis comments (fixed by this
> variant), the code below also removes the EXPORT_SYMBOL(udp_port_rover), since
> udp_port_rover can now remain local to net/ipv4/udp.c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>

Applied, and I marked udp_port_rover "static" for
good measure.

Thanks.

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