netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] rhashtable: abstract out function to get hash

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Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:36:59 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch,
        roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] rhashtable: abstract out function to get
 hash

Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com> wrote:
> Split out most of rht_key_hashfn which is calculating the hash into
> its own function. This way the hash function can be called separately to
> get the hash value.
> 
> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>

I don't get this one.  You're just using jhash, right? Why not
call jhash directly instead of rht_get_key_hashfn?

Cheers,
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