netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/0] reciprocal

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:20:01 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/0] reciprocal_divide update

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 02:29:38 +0100

> This patch is on top of aee636c4809fa5 ("bpf: do not use reciprocal
> divide") from Eric that sits in net tree. It will not create a merge
> conflict, but it depends on this one, so we suggest, if possible, to
> merge net into net-next.
> 
> We are proposing this change with only small modifications from the
> v2 version, namely updating the name of trim to reciprocal_scale
> (as commented on by Ben Hutchings and Eric Dumazet, thanks!).
> 
> We thought about introducing the reciprocal_divide algorithm in
> parallel to the one already used by the kernel but faced organizational
> issues, leading us to the conclusion that it is best to just replace
> the old one: We could not come up with names for the different
> implementations and also with a way to describe the differences to
> guide developers which one to choose in which situation. This is
> because we cannot specify the correct semantics for the version
> which is currently used by the kernel. Altough it seems to not be
> causing problems in the kernel, we cannot surely say so in the
> case of flex_array for the future. Current usage seems ok, but
> future users could run into problems.

Series applied, thanks.
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