netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 1/3] ipv4: rename ip_options_echo to __ip_options

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1409260724520.2078@localhost6.localdomain6>
Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2014 07:29:41 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
	Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 1/3] ipv4: rename ip_options_echo to
 __ip_options_echo()

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 13:38 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 13:30 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > 
> > > Unrelated:
> > > 
> > > I wonder how much effort, if any, should be made to convert
> > > struct sk_buff * to const struct sk_buff * where appropriate.
> > > 
> > > For instance:
> > > 
> > > This __ip_options_echo could use const struct sk_buff *skb
> > > if fib_compute_spec_dst was changed to const struct sk_buff *skb.
> > 
> > Well, this seems something certainly doable, as a follow up ;)
> 
> It's doable, but it seems a non-trivial inspection task.
> 
> I believe coccinelle does not have the ability to automate this.

What are the exact conditions when the change is possible?

I guess something like the value is only used for accessing its fields. 
and is not passed to any other function?  Here skb is passed to a function 
called ip_hdr, but at least if one wanted to focus on sk_buffs then one 
could treat that function as a special case.

julia
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