linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] net: neighbour: Simplify ifdefs around neigh_app

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Message-ID: <521E4AE6.7080703@canonical.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:09:26 -0600
From:	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] net: neighbour: Simplify ifdefs around neigh_app_ns()

On 08/28/2013 12:51 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 12:24 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> Drop a couple of ifdef/endif pairs by moving the ifdef
>> surrounding neigh_app_ns() to the interior of neigh_app_ns().
> []
>> This is an admittedly trivial change. I stumbled on it while trying to figure
>> out why Ubuntu doesn't have CONFIG_ARPD enabled.
> 
> I'd be more inclined to make neigh_app_ns static inline
> in the .h file and remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL
> 

I thought about that as well, but then you'd have to extern
__neigh_notify(), which is currently a static function and large enough
to not really be suitable for inlining. Seems like unnecessary churn to me.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner@...onical.com
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