netdev - Re: [PATCH 01/12] skbuff: Unconstantify struct net argument in flowdis functions

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Message-ID: <CALx6S36HFR2TnxzHuf8x-76VSBTbEZDF2pJEpSp400PWBS83xQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:50:23 -0700
From: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	felipe@...anda.io
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] skbuff: Unconstantify struct net argument in
 flowdis functions

On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 6:34 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 7:23 PM Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com> wrote:
> >
> > We want __skb_flow_dissect to be able to call functions that
> > take a non-constant struct net argument (UDP socket lookup
> > functions for instance). Change the net argument of flow dissector
> > functions to not be const
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
>
>
> Hmm... let me send a patch series doing the opposite, ie add const
> qualifiers to lookup functions.

I had done that originally, but there were a lot of callers so it was
pretty messy.

Tom