netdev - Re: [PATCH 02/18] rhashtable: split rhashtable.h

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 1 Jun 2018 18:48:56 +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 02/18] rhashtable: split rhashtable.h

On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 02:44:09PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> Due to the use of rhashtables in net namespaces,
> rhashtable.h is included in lots of the kernel,
> so a small changes can required a large recompilation.
> This makes development painful.
> 
> This patch splits out rhashtable-types.h which just includes
> the major type declarations, and does not include (non-trivial)
> inline code.  rhashtable.h is no longer included by anything
> in the include/ directory.
> Common include files only include rhashtable-types.h so a large
> recompilation is only triggered when that changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt