netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: vlan, qlcnic: make vlan_find

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Message-Id: <20110717.123358.556106070658579125.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:33:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	equinox@...c24.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net, amit.salecha@...gic.com,
	anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com, linux-driver@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: vlan, qlcnic: make vlan_find_dev private

From: David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:53:12 +0200

> there is only one user of vlan_find_dev outside of the actual vlan code:
> qlcnic uses it to iterate over some VLANs it knows.
> 
> let's just make vlan_find_dev private to the VLAN code and have the
> iteration in qlcnic be a bit more direct. (a few rcu dereferences less
> too)
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.net>

Applied.
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