netdev - RE: [PATCH 1/9] netfilter: Create and use nf_hook

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Date:	Tue, 7 Apr 2015 14:27:22 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'David Miller' <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	"netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org" <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"pablo@...filter.org" <pablo@...filter.org>,
	"hannes@...essinduktion.org" <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	"jiri@...nulli.us" <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/9] netfilter: Create and use nf_hook_state.

> Instead of passing a large number of arguments down into the nf_hook()
> entry points, create a structure which carries this state down through
> the hook processing layers.
> 
> This makes is so that if we want to change the types or signatures of
> any of these pieces of state, there are less places that need to be
> changed.

Should the structure be passed as a 'const foo *' ?
Or is that always too restrictive?

	David

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