netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/8] rhashtable: remove nulls

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Message-ID: <20180507092748.yqqldkwkxkynaaju@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Mon, 7 May 2018 17:27:48 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Cc:     Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] rhashtable: remove nulls_base and related code.

On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 07:37:49AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> I can see no evidence that this is required for anything, as it isn't
> use and I'm fairly sure that in it's current form - it cannot be used.

Search for nulls in net/ipv4.  This is definitely used throughout
the network stack.  As the aim is to convert as many existing hash
tables to rhashtable as possible, we want to keep this.

Cheers,
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