netdev - Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next V2 1/1] openvswitch: Declare ovs key structures using macros

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Date:   Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:07:27 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     yihung.wei@...il.com
Cc:     elibr@...lanox.com, pshelar@....org, dev@...nvswitch.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, simon.horman@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next V2 1/1] openvswitch: Declare ovs key
 structures using macros

From: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 10:47:18 -0800

> For example, to see how 'struct ovs_key_ipv6' is defined, now we need
> to trace how OVS_KEY_IPV6_FIELDS is defined, and how OVS_KEY_FIELD_ARR
> and OVS_KEY_FIELD defined.  I think it makes the header file to be
> more complicated.

I completely agree.

Unless this is totally unavoidable, I do not want to apply a patch
which makes reading and auditing the networking code more difficult.