netdev - Re: qdisc hash table changes...

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Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:02:43 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: qdisc hash table changes...

On Tue, 9 Aug 2016, David Miller wrote:

> > It does indirectly pull in some networking headers, but it doesn't pull in 
> > netdevice.h (which is the place where the actual include of hashtable.h 
> > happens):
> 
> It pulls in skbuff.h, so are you willing to bet forever that skbuff.h
> won't indirectly pull in netdevice.h at some point in the future?
> 
> This is obviously a big problem, having global namespace conflicts
> like this.
> 
> Pushing fixing it propering into the future isn't really the right
> thing to do.
> 
> So please entertain my request to do this properly.

Ok, I will add this to my TODO list, but this can take quite some time 
(especially as I can imagine some maintainers pushing back on this, 
because it doesn't really fix any existing issue in their code).

Does that strictly have to be a show-stopper for the qdisc hash 
conversion, given the fact that the whole tree is building properly?

> Thank you.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs