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From: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: <netdev@vger•kernel.org>, <tipc-discussion@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 1/2] tipc: move netlink policies to netlink.h
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 11:20:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568E3BD8.8040209@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160105.164749.1356932343853770417.davem@davemloft.net>

On 2016-01-05 22:47, David Miller wrote:
> From: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson•com>
> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:56:16 +0100
> 
>> Make the c files less cluttered and enable netlink attributes to be
>> shared between files. This will prove useful in a future patch where a
>> node message will contain a nested network.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson•com>
>> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson•com>
> 
> netlink.h is included by more than one file, which means the tables
> (might) be instantiated multiple times.
I thought about that, but I assumed unreferenced tables would be
optimized away by the compiler (?)
> 
> I'd really recommend not putting such tables in a header file that
> is used in this way.
Alright, I will drop the patch.

Do you have any suggestion on how to handle the case where a policy
(table) is shared between c files, like the net policy in the
subsequent patch? I could perhaps use extern in the c files (which
seems frown upon) or duplicate the policy? :-S

Thanks for the review
Richard
> 
> Thanks.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-07 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-05  9:56 [PATCH net-next v1 1/2] tipc: move netlink policies to netlink.h Richard Alpe
2016-01-05  9:56 ` [PATCH net-next v1 2/2] tipc: add peer removal functionality Richard Alpe
2016-01-05 21:47 ` [PATCH net-next v1 1/2] tipc: move netlink policies to netlink.h David Miller
2016-01-07 10:20   ` Richard Alpe [this message]
2016-01-10  2:03     ` David Miller

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