netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] rhashtable: Remove GFP flag from rhashtable_walk

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Date:   Sat, 20 Aug 2016 00:38:35 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] rhashtable: Remove GFP flag from rhashtable_walk_init

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 06:25:04PM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On 08/18/16 at 04:50pm, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > +/* Obsolete function, do not use in new code. */
> > +static inline int rhashtable_walk_init(struct rhashtable *ht,
> > +				       struct rhashtable_iter *iter, gfp_t gfp)
> > +{
> > +	rhashtable_walk_enter(ht, iter);
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> 
> Converting the 5 users of rhashtable_walk_init() looks very straight
> forward, any reason to keep this around?

It is easy but it's needless churn, especially since we've just
converted all of them the other way.

Feel free to do a patch on top of this to get rid of them.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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