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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:34:34 +0800
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On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 14:18:10 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > All functions are checked right now and all functions can be NULL.
> > Check the patch #2 ...
> 
> This seems strange. What sort of routing protocol can you build, which
> has a NULL receive function? Only static routes. I would perform the
> check once in _register(), that there is a receive function, and never
> check it again. Save yourself a few cycles.
> 
> There is an LWN article about these ideas. Worth a read. I will post a
> link later.

Thanks. That will be helpful!

Cheers,
Marek