netdev - Re: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] pull request: batman-adv 2011-10-29

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Date:	Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:05:04 +0100
From:	Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
To:	b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, lindner_marek@...oo.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] pull request: batman-adv 2011-10-29

On Sunday 30 October 2011 03:07:45 David Miller wrote:
[...]
> Make a common header:
> 
> 	struct tt_entry_common {
> 		u8 addr[ETH_ALEN];
> 		struct hlist_node hash_entry;
> 	};
> 
> Then use that at the beginning of both structures:
> 
> 	struct tt_local_entry {
> 		struct tt_entry_common common;
> 		unsigned long last_seen;
> 		...
> 	};
> 
> 	struct tt_global_entry {
> 		struct tt_entry_comomn common;
> 		struct orig_node *orig_node;
> 		...
> 	};
> 
> And &p->common is what gets passed into tt_response_fill_table().

Thanks for the pull. This is exactly the long term solution we want to submit 
later to net-next. But we also wanted to keep the patch as small as possible 
for stable@...nel.org

Thanks,
	Sven
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