netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Use math to point per net sysctls into the appropriate struct net

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Message-ID: <50eaac61-2ae1-bd6e-bb07-d574f137e581@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 2 Mar 2020 23:34:01 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Cambda Zhu <cambda@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Dust Li <dust.li@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Tony Lu <tonylu@...ux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Use math to point per net sysctls into the
 appropriate struct net



On 3/2/20 10:54 PM, Cambda Zhu wrote:
> The data pointers of ipv6 sysctl are set one by one which is hard to
> maintain, especially with kconfig. This patch simplifies it by using
> math to point the per net sysctls into the appropriate struct net,
> just like what we did for ipv4.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cambda Zhu <cambda@...ux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c | 20 ++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>


Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Please add the intended tree (net-next in this case) for your next patches.

Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.rst