Re: [NET]: Avoid useless iterating in netlink dump functions

[jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>]

On Fri, 2005-06-05 at 23:27 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> jamal wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-06-05 at 23:12 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > 
> >>action dumping is on my list for more treatment than this :)
> > 
> > Well, that does sound scary ;-> What do you have in mind.
> > Recall, there are two paths to dumping actions - unlike any other thing
> > in the kernel.
> 
> Don't worry :) Its actually action walking that is on my list.
> What I have planed is roughly:
> - clean up and move hashing functions to act_common.c
> - put data needed for hashing (size, pointer to memory, ...) in
>   struct tc_act_common, which is referenced by struct tc_action_ops
> - add callback based walking function so we don't need two of them
>
> This should also get rid of all the large functions contained in
> headerfiles.
> 

Ah, ok ;->
Weve discussed this already - I think DaveM already took in the simple
action patch that i posted a while back; it doesnt seem like you will
collide with that - just double check.

cheers,
jamal