netdev - Re: [PATCH v4] ipv6: Fix problem with expired dst cache

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Date:	Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:05:58 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gaofeng@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] ipv6: Fix problem with expired dst cache

From: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:53:48 +0800

> +		/* point to where the dst_entry copied from */
> +		void			*from;

So instead of using a real type here, your just going to cast
this thing to and from "struct dst_entry *" a thousand times?

That's terrible, there is zero value from using a void pointer
here, it just makes the code look ugly.
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