netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 3/9] genetlink: add small version of ops

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Date:   Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:40:35 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, jiri@...nulli.us, mkubecek@...e.cz,
        dsahern@...nel.org, pablo@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 3/9] genetlink: add small version of ops

On Wed, 2020-09-30 at 17:05 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> We want to add maxattr and policy back to genl_ops, to enable
> dumping per command policy to user space. This, however, would
> cause bloat for all the families with global policies. Introduce
> smaller version of ops (half the size of genl_ops). Translate
> these smaller ops into a full blown struct before use in the
> core.

LGTM. That part about the WARN_ON was even easier than I thought :)

Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>

johannes