linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 1/7] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFyOst4c3WHbPVbYkSBdBmLJUui5OvoVOh5AuPMnigwnEA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 3 Aug 2012 15:29:10 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, mingo@...e.hu, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	aarcange@...hat.com, ericvh@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/7] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> I actually meant an enclosing struct.  When you're defining a struct
> member, simply putting the storage after a struct with var array
> should be good enough.  If that doesn't work, quite a few things in
> the kernel will break.

The unsigned member of a struct has to be the last one, so your struct
won't work.

            Linus
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